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Authorised form of nameBangham; Alec Douglas (1921 - 2010)
Dates1921 - 2010
NationalityBritish
Place of birthManchester, England
Date of birth10/11/1921
Date of death09/03/2010
OccupationHaematologist
ActivityEducation:
Downs Quaker preparatory school, Colwall, Worcestershire; MB MS (medicine), University College London

Career:
Addenbrooke's hospital; Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1948; Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge: Staff scientist, appointed 1952;

Medals and awards:
Doctorate of medicine from London University (1965); Fellow of the Royal Society (1977); Fellow of University College London (1981); Distinguished fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (1997)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election17/03/1977
Age at election55
RelationshipsThe son of Donald Bangham, director of research at the British Coal Utilisation Research Association, and Edith Kerby, who was born in St Petersburg and had been a one-time interpreter for Emmeline Pankhurst, Alec was the eldest of three children. Married, his wife predeceased him by a few months. He leaves three sons and a daughter.
PublishedWorksThe landmark paper in which he had first described liposomes, with Malcolm Standish and Jeff Watkins, which was published in 1965, was recognised as a citation classic in Current Contents in 1989.
SourceObituary:
Biographical Memoirs of the Royal Society, Vol 57, 2011, pp 25-44, plate, by Sir Brian Heap CBE FRS and Gregory Gregoriadis
Brian Heap, in 'The Guardian' 31 March 2010
Chris Havergal i 'Cambridge News' 13/03/2010
Jef Akst in 'The Scientist' 2/04/2010
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/33397705
CodeNA4663
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1977/04Bangham, Alec Douglas: certificate of election to the Royal Society1972
ADBPapers of Alec Douglas Bangham FRS, biophysicist1950s-1990s
P/0214Portrait of Bangham, Alec Douglas1985
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