Edward Leicester Atkinson (1881–1929): Antarctic explorer, scientist and naval surgeon

• Published in: Journal of Medical Biography
• Main Author: Guly, Henry
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2014
• Subjects: History and Philosophy of Science; Medicine (miscellaneous); Antarctic; Atkinson; Leicester; South Pole; The Antarctic; Antarc*; South pole
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0967772014526131; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0967772014526131; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/0967772014526131

Edward Leicester Atkinson qualified at St Thomas's Hospital in 1906 and joined the Navy in 1908. He was a doctor and parasitologist on Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition to the Antarctic and had to take charge of the expedition when Scott died on his return from the South Pole. After th...