List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1920

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Robert Broom South African doctor and paleontologist

Robert Broom FRS FRSE was a Scottish South African doctor and paleontologist. He qualified as a medical practitioner in 1895 and received his DSc in 1905 from the University of Glasgow.

Edward Provan Cathcart Scottish physiologist

Edward Provan Cathcart was a Scottish physician and physiologist of international fame. The Cathcart Chair in Biochemistry at Glasgow University is named after him. Together with John Boyd Orr he published influential papers on protein metabolism in man. He is also remembered as Chairman of the Scottish Health Board Committee 1933-1936. The Cathcart Committee was critical to the Scottish input to the foundation of the National Health Service after the Second World War. His obituary described his as a "life well spent in the service of mankind".

Arthur Prince Chattock, FRS was a British physicist.

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James George Frazer Scottish social anthropologist

Sir James George Frazer was a Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion. His most famous work, The Golden Bough (1890), documents and details the similarities among magical and religious beliefs around the globe. Frazer posited that human belief progressed through three stages: primitive magic, replaced by religion, in turn replaced by science.


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