| Authorised form of name | Billingham; Rupert Everett (1921 - 2002) |
| Dates | 1921 - 2002 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Warminster, Wiltshire, England |
| Date of birth | 15/10/1921 |
| Place of death | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Date of death | 16/11/2002 |
| Occupation | Immunologist, piomneer in the field of organ transplantation |
| Activity | Education:
City of Oxford High School; Oriel College, Oxford University (studies interrupted by WW2, D Phil under the supervision of Peter Medawar)
Career:
Active service during WW2, Lieutenant in the Royal Navy anti-submarine escort vessels in Western Approaches Command and on the East Indies Station; Postdoctoral research at Birmingham University with Peter Medawar and P L Krohn (1947 - 1951); Senior Research Fellow (under Medawar), University College, London (1951); Wistar Professor of Zoology, University of Pennsylvania (1957-65); award of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (1964); Professor and Chairman, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Pennsylvania Medical School (1965 - 1971); Professor and Chairman, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Southwestern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Centre at Dallas (1971 - 1986); Professor Emeritus, University of Texas Health Science Centre at Dallas; President, Transplantation Society (1974-76); President, International Society for Immunology of Reproduction (1983-86); honorary doctorates from Trinity College of Hartford, University of Pennsylvania; retired (1986) Resident in the USA since 1957
Memberships:
Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Honorary Member of Societe Francaise d'Immunologie |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 16/03/1961 |
| Age at election | 39 |
| Relationships | Married (1951) Jean Morpeth |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2005 vol 51 pp 33-50, plate, by Leslie Baruch Brent |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/48003636 |
| Code | NA4297 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/000374 | Billingham, Rupert Everett | 1958 |
| IM/000376 | Billingham, Rupert Everett | c 1984 |
| EC/1961/04 | Billingham, Rupert Everett: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 16 March 1961 |
| IM/00375 | Billingham, Rupert Everett | c 1984 |
| RR/78/69 | Referee's report by Lancelot Thomas Hogben, on a paper 'A study of the branched cells of the mammalian epidermis with special reference to the fate of their division products' by Rupert Everett Billingham and Peter Brian Medawar | 21 October 1952 |
| RR/78/79 | Referee's report by Honor Bridget Fell, on a paper 'Studies on the problem of corneal homografts' by Rupert Everett Billingham and Thelma Boswell | 16 December 1952 |