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Authorised form of nameMcCance; Robert Alexander (1898 - 1993)
Dates1898 - 1993
NationalityBritish
Date of birth09 December 1898
Date of death05/03/1993
ActivityHonours:
CBE 1953
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election18/03/1948
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1995 vol 41 pp 261-280, plate, by Elsie M Widdowson
CodeNA2085
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1948/12McCance, Robert Alexander: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CMB/281/39Notes on papers passed for publication in the Proceedings1961
IM/GA/WS/3177McCance, Robert Alexandernd
RR/54/43Referee's report by John Beresford Leathes, on a paper 'Experimental sodium chloride deficiency in man' by Robert Alexander McCanceNovember 1935
RR/58/91Referee's report by John Beresford Leathes, on a paper 'The response of the kidney to an alkalosis during salt deficiency' by Robert Alexander McCance and Elsie May WiddowsonFebruary 1936
MS/934/2Papers of Robert McCance1945 - 1994
S/0034Sculpture bust of McCance, Robert Alexander1995
IM/002851McCance, Robert Alexandernd
CMB/281/18Papers passed for publication in the Proceedings1959
S/0058Sculpture bust of McCance, Robert Alexander1995
CMB/281/27Notes on papers passed for publication in the ProceedingsOctober 1960
MS/934Papers of Elsie Widdowson and Robert McCance from the Medical Research Council3 February 1937 - 10 June 2006
RR/80/21Referee's report by Ernest Basil Verney, on a paper 'Renal function before birth' by Robert Alexander McCance and Elsie May Widdowson14 May 1953
RR/80/20Letter from Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'Renal function before birth' by Robert Alexander McCance and Elsie May Widdowson, to D C Martin20 April 1953
RR/76/65Letter from Robert Alexander McCance, on a paper 'Body water electrolytes in acute anhydraemia' by P N Magee and W G Spector, to [the Royal Society]15 October 1951
RR/76/80Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'Effect of carbohydrate and sea water on metabolism' by G R Hervey and Robert Alexander McCance26 November 1951
RR/76/19Referee's report by Robert Alexander McCance, on a paper 'The central nervous control of food and water intake' by G C Kennedy and Hilda M Bruce29 March 1951
RR/76/81Referee's report by Albert Neuberger, on a paper 'Effect of carbohydrate and sea water on metabolism' by G R Hervey and Robert Alexander McCance14 December 1951
RR/74/39Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'A method of breaking down the body weights of living persons into terms of extracellular fluid, cell mass and fat, and some applications of it to physiology and medicine' by Robert Alexander McCance and Elsie May Widdowson25 June 1950
RR/76/18Letter from Robert Alexander McCance, on a paper 'The central nervous control of food and water intake' by G C Kennedy and Hilda M Bruce, to D C Martin29 March 1951
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