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[[File:Thomas Lewis (cardiologist).jpg|thumb|upright|Thomas Lewis]]
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'''Sir Thomas Lewis''', [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]], [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]], [[Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians|FRCP]]<ref name="frs">{{Cite journal | last1 = Drury | first1 = A. N. | last2 = Grant | first2 = R. T. | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1945.0012 | title = Thomas Lewis. 1881-1945 | journal = [[Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume = 5 | issue = 14 | pages = 179 | year = 1945 | pmid = | pmc = }}</ref> LLD (26 December 1881 – 17 March 1945) was a British [[cardiologist]] (although he personally disliked the term, preferring [[cardiovascular disease]] specialist<ref name="DNB" />).<ref name="DNB" /><ref>{{Cite journal
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In 1930, he founded the [[Medical Research Society]]. He was awarded the Royal Society's [[Copley Medal]] in 1941 "for his clinical and experimental investigations upon the mammalian heart." He was only the second clinician to receive it, after [[Lord Lister]] in 1902. He served as vice-president of the Royal Society from 1943 to 1945.
Lewis suffered a [[myocardial infarction]] at the age of 45 and gave up his 70-cigarette-a-day habit, being one of the first to realise that smoking damaged the blood vessels.<ref name="DNB" /> He died from [[coronary heart disease]] at his home at [[Loudwater, Hertfordshire]] on 17 March 1945
==Publications==
*''The Mechanism of the Heart Beat'' (1911)
*''Clinical Electro-Cardiography'' (1913)
==Family==
He married Alice Lorna Treharne James in 1916. They had three children.
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