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Robert Edgar Hope

Photograph at the Robert Edgar Hope blue plaque

Robert Edgar Hope-Simpson OBE. MRCS, LRCP. FRCGP. HonFFPHM 1908-2003 At his General Practice here he set up his pioneering Epidemiological Research Unit establishing the link between chickenpox and shingles and contribution to the public understanding of the spread of influenza.

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