| Authorised form of name | Kekwick; Ralph Ambrose (1908 - 2000) |
| Dates | 1908 - 2000 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Leytonstone, Essex, England |
| Date of birth | 11/11/1908 |
| Place of death | Woodford Wells, Essex |
| Date of death | 17/01/2000 |
| Occupation | Biophysicist |
| Activity | Education:
Leytonstone County High School; Bayliss-Starling Scholar (University College, London, 1930-1931)
Career:
Commonwealth Fund (Harkness) Fellowship, researching in New York (1931-1933); Lecturer, Biochemistry (1933-1937); Lister Institute MRC Fellow (1937-1940) and staff (1940-1971); Head, Biophysics division, Lister Institute (1943-1971); Reader, Chemical Biophysics, London University (1954-1966); Professor, Biophysics (1966-1971)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 17/03/1966 |
| Age at election | 57 |
| Relationships | Married: 1) 1933 Barbara Stone (died 1973, 1 daughter); 2) 1974 Dr Margaret Mackay (died 1982) |
| Source | AssocMaterial:
NCUACS 118/4/03. Papers deposited in Archives and Manuscripts Section, Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, London
Sources:
Independent Review, p.6 (16 February 2000); Times (23 March 2000)
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2002 vol 48 pp 233-249, plate, by J M Creeth, L Vallet and W M Watkins FRS
Notes:
Independent Review obituary gives birthplace as Woodford Wells, Essex |
| Code | NA2496 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| GLB/65/61/24 | R A Kekwick, Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine to Brown | 23 November 1966 |
| EC/1966/14 | Kekwick, Ralph Ambrose: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| GLB/65/61/23 | Brown to R A Kekwick, Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine | 17 November 1966 |
| RR/78/88 | Referee's report by Walter Thomas James Morgan, on a paper 'Electrophoretic studies of serum proteins of foetal rabbits' by Francis William Rogers Brambell, W A Hemmings, Megan Henderson and Ralph Ambrose Kekwick | 6 January 1953 |