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Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome | |
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 Henry Wellcome in 1930 | |
| Born | August 21, 1853 Almond, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Died | July 25, 1936 (aged 82) Marylebone, London, England |
| Known for | Founding Burroughs Wellcome & Company, GlaxoSmithKline and the Wellcome Trust |
| Medical career | |
| Profession | Pharmaceutical entrepreneur |
Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome FRS[1] (August 21, 1853 – July 25, 1936) was an American pharmaceutical entrepreneur. He founded the pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Company with his colleague Silas Burroughs in 1880,[2] which is one of the four large companies to eventually merge to form GlaxoSmithKline. He left a large amount of capital for charitable work in his will, which was used to form the Wellcome Trust, one of the world's largest medical charities. He was a keen collector of medical artefacts which are now managed by the Science Museum, London, and a small selection of which are displayed at the Wellcome Collection.
- ^ Wenyon, C. M. (1938). "Henry Solomon Wellcome. 1853–1936". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 2 (6): 229–238. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1938.0003.
- ^ History of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Archived 6 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine bwfund.org.