William John Adie (1886–1935)

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William John Adie, MD Ed, FRCP (Fig. 1) was remembered after his passing as the “Geelong boy who made good in London” by the daily newspaper of his hometown in Australia. He made his name as a prolific neurologist and neuro-ophthalmologist in the early 1900s. He was born in Geelong, a small port city on the southern coast of Victoria, Australia, on October 31, 1886. His passion for medicine became clear when he had a transitory encounter with a physician from his hometown. He eventually moved to the United Kingdom and enrolled at University of Edinburgh to pursue his medical education due to the excessive tuition costs in his home-country. He received a gold medal for his outstanding academic performance and also overachieved in his extracurricular activities as an avid rower.

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