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1. Scottish obstetrician and surgeon who pioneered in the use of ether and discovered the anaesthetic effects of chloroform (1811-1870)
   - Sir James Young Simpson
    
2. United States divorcee whose marriage to Edward VIII created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication
   - Wallis Simpson, Mrs. Simpson, Wallis Warfield Simpson, Wallis Warfield Windsor, Duchess of Windsor

Type of: divorcee, divorcée, doc [informal], doctor, Dr., grass widow, MD, medico [informal], physician

Encyclopedia: Simpson, Nevada