Meyer Löw Schomburg (1690-1761) was a German physician. He settled in London in 1721, treating the poor at the Great Synagogue. He was admitted a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1722 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1726. In 1729 Schomburg tried to block the entry of his rival Jacob de Castro Sarmento into the Royal Society.
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Edgar Samuel, ‘Schomberg , Meyer Löw (1690–1761)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24826 [accessed 20 Aug 2014]).
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