| William Cramer | |
| Birth Date: | 2 June 1878 |
| Birth Place: | Germany |
| Fields: | Pathologist |
| Death Place: | Denver, Colorado |
| Workplaces: | University of Edinburgh Imperial Cancer Research Fund Washington University School of Medicine |
| Alma Mater: | University of Munich |
| Known For: | Pathologist at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund |
William Cramer FRSE (2 June 1878 - 10 August 1945) was a British pathologist and physiologist, best known for his work with the Imperial Cancer Research Fund.
William Cramer was born in Germany on 2 June 1878.[1] He received his first tertiary education at the University of Munich,[2] and received his Ph.D. at the University of Berlin in 1901.[2] He achieved his D.Sc. at the University of Edinburgh in 1908,[2] during which time he had worked under Swale Vincent.[3] Cramer took the English Conjoint qualification after nine years as a chemical physiology lecturer at Edinburgh.[2] He had worked briefly for the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in 1904;[1] he rejoined the organisation in 1914.[2]
In 1907 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Francis H A Marshall, Alexander Crum Brown and James Cossar Ewart.[4]
Shortly after the outbreak of World War I, Cramer became a naturalised British citizen. He was elected a Foreign Member of the German Society for the Investigation of Cancer.[2] In 1933, he was an official British delegate at the International Cancer Congress in Madrid,[2] and again in 1934 at the International Cancer Research conference in Paris.[2] In 1939, after 25 years with the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Cramer relocated to St. Louis, Missouri,[2] where he was head pathologist at the Barnard Skin and Cancer Hospital,[2] and a research associate at Washington University.[2]
Throughout his career, Cramer authored numerous papers on cancer, physiology, and biochemistry.[2] His textbook, Practical Course in Chemical Physiology, had reached its fourth edition by 1920.[2] Cramer belonged to the Physiological Society, the Pathological Society, and the Biochemical Society.[2]