William Bulloch (bacteriologist)

William Bulloch FRS (19 August 1868, in Aberdeen – 11 February 1941)[1] was a British bacteriologist and historian of bacteriology.

Bulloch did post-graduate work at the University of Leipzig as a voluntary assistant to Birch-Hirschfeld and also studied at Vienna.

In 1894 he returned briefly to the University of Aberdeen and received the higher medical qualification Doctor of Medicine.

He returned to the UK in 1895 to become the chief bacteriologist at the British Institute for Preventive Medicine's antitoxin laboratory at Sudbury.

Bulloch chaired the governing body of the Lister Institute and was an original member of the Medical Research Council.