JAC Advance Access originally published online on August 10, 2005
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2005 56(4):607-608; doi:10.1093/jac/dki300
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Professor John David Williams, 3rd March 193111th July 2005
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John David Williams, known to the world of microbiology as JD or simply David, formerly Goldsmiths' Professor of Microbiology at The London Hospital Medical College, died peacefully in Saint Bartholomew's Hospital on Monday 11th July. He was 74. Without him, the specialty of Medical Microbiology in Great Britain today and even beyond its shores would have been very different and the public might well not have had the benefit of the services of many of the microbiologists to whom they must now turn to prevent MRSA and other