| Authorised form of name | Bangham; Alec Douglas (1921 - 2010) |
| Dates | 1921 - 2010 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Manchester, England |
| Date of birth | 10/11/1921 |
| Date of death | 09/03/2010 |
| Occupation | Haematologist |
| Activity | Education:
Downs Quaker preparatory school, Colwall, Worcestershire; MB MS (medicine), University College London
Career:
Addenbrooke's hospital; Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1948; Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge: Staff scientist, appointed 1952;
Medals and awards:
Doctorate of medicine from London University (1965); Fellow of the Royal Society (1977); Fellow of University College London (1981); Distinguished fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (1997) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 17/03/1977 |
| Age at election | 55 |
| Relationships | The son of Donald Bangham, director of research at the British Coal Utilisation Research Association, and Edith Kerby, who was born in St Petersburg and had been a one-time interpreter for Emmeline Pankhurst, Alec was the eldest of three children. Married, his wife predeceased him by a few months. He leaves three sons and a daughter. |
| PublishedWorks | The landmark paper in which he had first described liposomes, with Malcolm Standish and Jeff Watkins, which was published in 1965, was recognised as a citation classic in Current Contents in 1989. |
| Source | Obituary:
Biographical Memoirs of the Royal Society, Vol 57, 2011, pp 25-44, plate, by Sir Brian Heap CBE FRS and Gregory Gregoriadis
Brian Heap, in 'The Guardian' 31 March 2010
Chris Havergal i 'Cambridge News' 13/03/2010
Jef Akst in 'The Scientist' 2/04/2010 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/33397705 |
| Code | NA4663 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1977/04 | Bangham, Alec Douglas: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1972 |
| ADB | Papers of Alec Douglas Bangham FRS, biophysicist | 1950s-1990s |
| P/0214 | Portrait of Bangham, Alec Douglas | 1985 |