| Authorised form of name | Bishop; Ann (1899 - 1990); parasitologist |
| Dates | 1899 - 1990 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Derby Street, Hulme, Manchester, England |
| Date of birth | 19 December 1899 |
| Place of death | Cambridge, England |
| Date of death | 07 May 1990 |
| Occupation | Parasitologist |
| Research field | Parasitology |
| Biology |
| Organic chemistry |
| Zoology |
| Chemotherapy |
| Protozoa |
| Activity | Education:
Privately educated at home until 1916; Fielden School (1909–12); Manchester High School for Girls (1912–18); Manchester University (Natural Sciences). PhD (1926), ScD
Career:
Honorary Research Fellow, Manchester University (1925); National Institute for Medical Research, London (1926-1929); Research Fellow, Molteno Institute, Cambridge (1929); Yarrow Fellow, Girton College, Cambridge (1932); Research Fellow, Girton College, (1937-1966); Beit MRC Chemotherapy Research Unit (1938), Director, (1942-1966); Life Fellow, Girton College (1966); worked on experimental malaria chemotherapy; editor of the journal Parasitology (for 20 years); served on Malaria Committee of the World Health Organisation; died following a brief attack of pneumonia.
Memberships:
British Parasitological Society (Founder Member; President 1961) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 19/03/1959 |
| Age at election | 60 |
| Proposer | George Salt |
| Samuel Rickard Christophers |
| Rothschild |
| Henry Hallett Dale |
| James Gray |
| Carl Frederick Abel Pantin |
| Neil Hamilton Fairley |
| Henry Edward Shortt |
| Edward Hindle |
| Muriel Robertson |
| Cecil Arthur Hoare |
| David Keilin |
| Relationships | Parents: James Kimberley Bishop, furniture maker, and Eileen, daughter of George Ginger, builder.
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| OtherInfo | Distinguished for her work on cytology, life-history and cultivation of free-living and parasitic Protozoa.
Studied drug resistance in Plasmodium.
Opened a new field of research in the physiology of malarial parasites.
Studied parasitic amoebae and examined potential chemotherapies for the treatment of amoebic diseases including amoebic dysentery.
A memorial plaque was erected in the chapel at Girton College. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
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| Source | Sources:
Obituaries: Guardian (12 May 1990); Times (22 May 1990)
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1992 vol 38 pp 27-39, plate, by L G Goodwin and K Vickerman |
| Code | NA6579 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| GLB/65/13/14 | Ann Bishop, Cambridge to Brown | 11 June 1970 |
| GLB/65/13/15 | Brown to Ann Bishop, Cambridge | 22 June 1970 |
| IM/GA/WRS/8343 | Bishop, Ann | ? 1959 |
| EC/1959/03 | Bishop, Ann: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/000385 | Bishop, Ann | nd |
| HD/25/21 | Presentation album for Henry Dale on his retirement from the National Institute for Medical Research | 30 September 1942 |