Lionel R. Milgrom is a British chemist and homeopath who has been accused of being a proponent of pseudoscience. He is a former faculty member at Imperial College London, and a former senior lecturer in inorganic chemistry at Brunel University. He worked as a chemist with expertise in porphyrins for more than twenty years, after which he trained in

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because he was impressed at how effective homeopathy appeared to be for treating his partner's pneumonia. Milgrom is also the founder of the company PhotoBiotics, a spinoff from Imperial College London, which pioneers a form of light-activated targeted cancer therapy. He has claimed that quantum entanglement explains how homeopathy works, a claim that has been criticized as "patent nonsense" by

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. He has criticized those who criticize homeopathy as "new fundamentalists" and accused them of "demean ngscience".

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Milgrom, Lionel R. British chemists Living people Academics of Imperial College London British homeopaths Alternative medicine researchers Academics of Brunel University London Year of birth missing (living people)