| RefNo | EC/1960/05 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XVI, 271; A01797 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Davidson, James Norman: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Certificate of Election |
| Citation | Distinguished for his work on nucleic acid metabolism. In 1943 demonstrated for the first time by purely chemical methods the ubiquitous occurrence of pentose nucleic acids in animal tissues, embryonic and adult. Isolated a pentose nucleic acid from liver in 1944 and identified its sugar as ribose. By chemical and cytochemical methods and ultraviolet microscopy made extensive pioneer biochemical studies of the nucleic acid content and distribution in normal and pathological tissues and in tissue culture. Was the first in Great Britain (in 1947) to apply the use of isotopes 32P and 15N and later 14C to the study of nucleic acid metabolism, thus demonstrating the relative metabolic stability of deoxyribonucleic acid as compared with ribonucleic acid and the structural and morphological heterogeneity of ribonucleic acids in different subcellular fractions.
A list of 110 publications is appended. |
| Proposers | F Dickens; R A Peters; C R Harington; E C Dodds; H A Krebs; A Wormall; W T J Morgan |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA647 | Davidson; James Norman (1911 - 1972) | 1911 - 1972 |