| Authorised form of name | Bülbring; Edith (1903 - 1990); pharmacologist and physiologist |
| Dates | 1903 - 1990 |
| Nationality | German |
| Place of birth | Bonn, Germany, Europe |
| Date of birth | 27/12/1903 |
| Place of death | John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England |
| Date of death | 04/07/1990 |
| Occupation | Pharmacologist and physiologist |
| Research field | Pharmacology |
| Medicine |
| Physiology |
| Musculature |
| Activity | Education:
Klosterman Lyzeum, Bonn; private tuition; Bonn Gymnasium (1922); Bonn University (medicine); Munich; Freiburg (qualified 1928)
Career:
House Physician (1 year), then Research Assistant to Paul Trendelenburg, pharmacologist (2 years), Berlin; Paediatrician, Jena, Germany (1931); Infectious Diesease Unit, , Virchow Krankenhaus, Berlin (1932); dismissed because she was half-Jewish and returned to Bonn (1933); visited a sister and friend in England and was offered a post at a biological standardization laboratory being set up by J H Burn for the Pharmaceutical Society, London; Departmental Demonstrator, Oxford University (1937); University Demonstrator and lecturer, Department of Pharmacology, Oxford (1946); naturalized British (1948); 'ad hominem' Reader (1960); Professorial Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall (1960); 'ad hominem' Professor, Oxford (1967); published 'Smooth muscle' (1970); organized a discussion meeting at the Royal Society on vertebrate smooth muscle physiology (1972), jointly with Dorothy Needham (FRS 1948); had one leg amputated below the knee due to atherosclerosis (when in her 70s); died after an attempted venous graft which caused multiple emboli, affecting her heart and probably caused her minor strokes (1990). |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/03/1958 |
| Age at election | 54 |
| Proposer | Edward George Tandy Liddell |
| John Henry Gaddum |
| David Whitteridge |
| Marthe Vogt |
| Harry Raymond Ing |
| Charles Arthur Lovatt Evans |
| Wilhelm Feldberg |
| George Lindor Brown |
| John William Trevan |
| Joshua Harold Burn |
| Relationships | Parents: Daniel Bülbring, Professor of English, Bonn University, and Hortense Leonore Kann, Dutch daughter of a Jewish banker of The Hague.
Siblings: Maud Bülbring, Hans Bülbring, and Luci Bülbring. |
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| OtherInfo | The first to study smooth muscle by intracellular electrodes in relation to tension changes and has added greatly to knowledge of its oxygen consumption.
She demonstrated the conversion of noradrenaline to adrenaline in the adrenal medulla, and the action of adrenaline in sympathetic ganglia, in skeletal muscle (using the phrenic nerve-diaphragm preparation) and in the central nervous system.
Her work on acetylcholine synthesis in rabbit atria established a fundamental link between biochemical process and function.
Her demonstration of the action of adrenaline on and its liberation from the perfused cervical ganglion is an important contribution to neurophysiology. |
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| Source | Sources:
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Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1992 vol 38 pp 67-95, plate, by T B Bolton and A F Brading
References:
Royal Society Council Minutes vol. 24 (1970-1973), p. 360
Alan W Cuthbert ' A brief history of the British Pharmacological Soviety' , BJP [British Pharmacological Sciety] Volume 147 ((S1), January 2006 |
| Code | NA5965 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| GLB/65/12/11 | Edith Bulbring, University of Oxford Department of Pharmacology to Brown | 9 August 1967 |
| HWT/25/10/2 | Correspondence and papers regarding visit of Royal Society delegation to China | November - December 1973 |
| EC/1958/07 | Bulbring, Edith: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| GLB/19/1/31 | Edith [Bulbring], Department of Pharmacology, Oxford to Brown | 3 February 1960 |
| IM/GA/WRS/8307 | Bulbring, Edith | c 1959 |
| RR/80/12 | Referee's report by Charles Arthur Lovatt Evans, on a paper 'Acetylcholine and ciliary movement in the gill plates of Mytilus edulis' by Edith Bulbring, Joshua Harold Burn and Heather J Shelley | 14 March 1953 |
| RR/80/13 | Referee's report by James Gray, on a paper 'Acetylcholine and ciliary movement in the gill plates of Mytilus edulis' by Edith Bulbring, Joshua Harold Burn and Heather J Shelley | 22 March 1953 |