| RefNo | EC/1960/18 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XVI, 284; A05659 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Pickering, Sir George White: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Certificate of Election |
| Citation | His investigations have placed him among the leading clinical scientists. He laid the foundations of modern knowledge on renin. His work showed its role in experimental hypertension, established its presence in diseased kidneys and led to the isolation by members of his team of pure hypertensin and the establishment of its amino-acid sequence. He showed that high blood-pressure alone accounts for the lesions in malignant hypertension; that essential hypertension is not a disease but the upper range of normal blood-pressure, which itself is influenced by heredity. Other investigations include the mechanism of headache, of hypertensive retinopathy, and the pain of peptic ulcer. |
| Proposers | H P Himsworth; J H Gaddum; F M R Walshe; C R Harington; R T Grant; A Neuberger; H H Dale; Geoffrey Jefferson; G R Cameron; AS V Hill; J McMichael; Adrian; Henry Barcroft; G W Harris; L R Wager; J C Eccles |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA1938 | Pickering; Sir; George White (1904 - 1980) | 1904 - 1980 |