Arnott

Arnott, Dr. Neil, a physician and man of science, was born at Arbroath in 1788. In 1811 having completed his medical education he began to practise in London. Though he soon got a fair business, he devoted himself to physics and mechanics, lecturing as early as 1813, and hitting upon new inventions year after year. In 1827 appeared the first edition of his Physics, which at once took its place as a standard work. He was appointed to the Senate of the newly created London University, and busied himself in planning the medical and scientific examinations. In 1838 he was made physician extraordinary to the Queen, and F.R.S., and in that year he published his work on Warming and Ventilation, a subject to which henceforth he gave great attention. He won for his hygienic inventions a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition (1855), and for his smokeless stove the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society. He died in 1874.