Dibrugarh district personal grant from Dr. John Berry White after he retired as the civil surgeon of Lakhimpur district. The medical school, "John Berry White Medical School" was set up in 1900 at Dibrugarh, and thus this premier institute started its history, and marked a new era in education. Assam Medical College has the pride of having the first Radiology department in India, as in 1910 two X-Ray machine (One 10MA and another 15MA) was bought from England, only 15 years after the discovery of X-Rays by Professor Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen in 1895-96. These two were the first X-Ray machines in India.
Wilhelm Stier - 1999, Professor at the Techical University of Graz, Austria Wilhelm Stier - Familytree - Family member. Wilhelm Stier Wilhelm Stier (born May 8, 1799 in Błonie near Warsaw, died September 19, 1856 in Schöneberg, full name: Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm Stier) was a German architect and university teacher at the Berlin Bauakademie. Wilhelm Stier was born the son of Christiane Eleonora Stiers 1766 - & Friedrich Ludewik Stier 1765 - 1815 a German postmaster & taxman in the then Prussian province of South Prussia & then Wilhelms family moved to Silesia. Wilhelm Stier was Grand son to Medical Officer /