| Authorised form of name | Rushton; William Albert Hugh (1901 - 1980) |
| Dates | 1901 - 1980 |
| Date of birth | 08/12/1901 |
| Date of death | 21/06/1980 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 18/03/1948 |
| Age at election | 46 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1970
Lectures:
Ferrier 1962 |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1986 vol 32 pp 421-459, plate, by H B Barlow |
| Code | NA1975 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1948/20 | Rushton, William Albert Hugh: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/63/82 | Referee's report by Hamilton Hartridge, on a paper 'A graphical solution of a differential equation with application to hill’s treatment of nerve excitation' by William Albert Hugh Rushton | May 1937 |
| RR/63/81 | Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'Initiation of the propagated disturbance' by William Albert Hugh Rushton | September 1937 |
| RR/69/170 | Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'The electrical constants of a crustacean nerve fibre' by Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and William Albert Hugh Rushton | 1945 |
| RR/68/498 | Memoranda, on a paper 'Action potentials from the isolated nerve cord of the earthworm' by William Albert Hugh Rushton | 21 June 1944 |
| RR/68/500 | Referee's report by Bryan Harold Cabot Matthews, on a paper 'Reflex conduction in the giant fibres of the earthworm' by William Albert Hugh Rushton | [1944] |
| RR/68/499 | Referee's report by Bryan Harold Cabot Matthews, on a paper 'Action potentials from the isolated nerve cord of the earthworm' by William Albert Hugh Rushton | [1944] |
| IM/GA/WS/3144 | Rushton, William Albert Hugh | nd |
| RR/69/171 | Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'The electrical constants of a crustacean nerve fibre' by Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and William Albert Hugh Rushton | 1945 |
| RR/80/40 | Referee's report by William Albert Hugh Rushton, on a paper 'Variations of the latent period of vision' by G B Arden and R A Weale | 6 October 1953 |