Melville Arnott

Sir William Melville Arnott (14 January 1909 – 17 September 1999) was a Scottish academic.

[1] He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War and after serving in Singapore and Tobruk, was one of the first medical officers to enter Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the end of the war in Europe.

[2] In 1937 Arnott was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and served as President in 1955.

[4] Arnott delivered the 1963 Croonian Lecture at the Royal College of Physicians on The Lungs in Mitral Stenosis[5] and was knighted in the 1971 New Year Honours.

[6] In 1971 retired from the Chair of Medicine at Birmingham and became head of the Department of Cardiology that the British Heart Foundation had created in Birmingham, holding that post until he finally retired from academic life in 1974.