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Sir William Melville Arnott MC TD FRCPE FRCP FRSE FRCPath (14 January 1909 – 17 September 1999) was a Scottish academic. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1931 and was appointed William Withering Chair in Medicine at the University of Birmingham in 1946.^[1] He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War, and was one of the first medical officers to enter Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the end of the war in Europe.^[1] He was awarded the Military Cross in the King's 1940 Birthday Honours.^[2] He played a major role in the Nuffield Foundation's Planning Committee (1957–59) that established a new medical school at the then University of Rhodesia, now the University of Zimbabwe.^[1]

Arnott was knighted in 1971.^[3]

^ ^a ^b ^c Wade, Owen (27 September 1999). "Obituary: Sir Melville Arnott". The Independent. Retrieved 28 May 2007.
^ "No. 34893". The London Gazette (invalid |supp= (help)). 11 July 1940.
^ "No. 45262". The London Gazette. 31 December 1970.

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-| DATE OF BIRTH     = 14 January 1909
-| PLACE OF BIRTH    = Edinburgh, Scotland
-| DATE OF DEATH     = 17 September 1999
-| PLACE OF DEATH    = Birmingham
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