| RefNo | EC/1950/17 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XV, 254; A05085 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Morton, Richard Alan - Certificate of election as Fellow of the Royal Society: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Distinguished for application of spectroscopic methods to biochemical problems, notably: recognition of provitamins D and photochemical characterisation of vitamin D; isolation and structure of vitamin K from fish; conversion of carotenoids to vitamin A in vivo. He discovered rich deposits of vitamin A in the intestinal mucosa of fish and showed that in fresh water fish vitamin A is replaced by vitamin A2. He has elucidated the connection between the retinenes of the visual purple and vitamins A and A2. He has published more than 100 papers in addition to monographs on vitamins and on spectroscopy. |
| Proposers | From Personal Knowledge. W C McC Lewis; T P Hilditch; W E Garner; W Baker; I M Heilbron; F G Donnan; A Robertson; J Chadwick; J Proudman; R A Peters; E Mellanby; J L Simonsen |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA1912 | Morton; Richard Alan (1899 - 1977) | 1899 - 1977 |