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Professor Robert Broom (Paisley, 30 November 1866 – 6 April 1951) was a Scottish, and later South African, doctor and palaeontologist.
He qualified as a medical practitioner in 1895 and received his DSc in 1905 from the University of Glasgow. In 1893 he married Mary Baird Baillie.
From 1903 to 1910 he was Professor of Zoology and Geology at Victoria College, Stellenbosch, South Africa, and subsequently he became keeper of vertebrate palaeontology at the South African Museum, Cape Town.[1]
- ↑ Findlay, George H. 1972. Robert Broom F.R.S. Palaeontologist & physician 1866–1951: biography / appreciation / bibliography. Cape Town: A.A. Balkema. ISBN 8696-10181-2