High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter John Kilner, M.D. B.A., M.B. (Cantab.) M.R.C.P., etc. (1847-1920) was a medical electrician at St. Thomas Hospital, London. There, from 1879 to 1893, he was in charge of electrotherapy. He was also in private medical practice, in Ladbroke Grove, London.He wrote papers on a range of subjects but is today best remembered for his late study The Human Atmosphere. In 1883 he became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians. In his spare time he was a keen chess player.