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Authorised form of name	Bishop; Ann (1899 - 1990); parasitologist
Dates	1899 - 1990
Nationality	British
Place of birth	Derby Street, Hulme, Manchester, England
Date of birth	19 December 1899
Place of death	Cambridge, England
Date of death	07 May 1990
Occupation	Parasitologist
Research field	Parasitology
	Biology
	Organic chemistry
	Zoology
	Chemotherapy
	Protozoa
Activity	Education: Privately educated at home until 1916; Fielden School (1909–12); Manchester High School for Girls (1912–18); Manchester University (Natural Sciences). PhD (1926), ScD Career: Honorary Research Fellow, Manchester University (1925); National Institute for Medical Research, London (1926-1929); Research Fellow, Molteno Institute, Cambridge (1929); Yarrow Fellow, Girton College, Cambridge (1932); Research Fellow, Girton College, (1937-1966); Beit MRC Chemotherapy Research Unit (1938), Director, (1942-1966); Life Fellow, Girton College (1966); worked on experimental malaria chemotherapy; editor of the journal Parasitology (for 20 years); served on Malaria Committee of the World Health Organisation; died following a brief attack of pneumonia. Memberships: British Parasitological Society (Founder Member; President 1961)
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	19/03/1959
Age at election	60
Proposer	George Salt
	Samuel Rickard Christophers
	Rothschild
	Henry Hallett Dale
	James Gray
	Carl Frederick Abel Pantin
	Neil Hamilton Fairley
	Henry Edward Shortt
	Edward Hindle
	Muriel Robertson
	Cecil Arthur Hoare
	David Keilin
Relationships	Parents: James Kimberley Bishop, furniture maker, and Eileen, daughter of George Ginger, builder.
PublishedWorks	RCN R73349 RCN R73368 RCN R73388 RCN R73364 RCN R73350 RCN R73397 RCN R73387 RCN R73340 RCN R73389 RCN R73370 RCN R73390 RCN R73395 RCN R73394 RCN R73379 RCN R73359 RCN R73392 RCN R73372 RCN R73351 RCN R73345 RCN R73369 RCN R73382 RCN R73343 RCN R73393 RCN R73358 RCN R73360 RCN R73362 RCN R73339 RCN R73356 RCN R73357 RCN R73353 RCN R73381 RCN R73386 RCN R73399 RCN R73344 RCN R73396 RCN R73398 RCN R73373 RCN 28600 RCN R73374 RCN R73338 RCN R73376 RCN R73385 RCN R73346 RCN R73341 RCN R73383 RCN R73363 RCN R73342 RCN R73384 RCN R73354 RCN R73380 RCN R73355 RCN R73361 RCN R73352 RCN R73348 RCN R73366 RCN R73365 RCN R73391 RCN R73371 RCN R73375 RCN R73367
OtherInfo	Distinguished for her work on cytology, life-history and cultivation of free-living and parasitic Protozoa. Studied drug resistance in Plasmodium. Opened a new field of research in the physiology of malarial parasites. Studied parasitic amoebae and examined potential chemotherapies for the treatment of amoebic diseases including amoebic dysentery. A memorial plaque was erected in the chapel at Girton College.
Royal Society Obituary or Memoir	Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices)
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Source	Sources: Obituaries: Guardian (12 May 1990); Times (22 May 1990) Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1992 vol 38 pp 27-39, plate, by L G Goodwin and K Vickerman
Code	NA6579

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
GLB/65/13/14	Ann Bishop, Cambridge to Brown	11 June 1970
GLB/65/13/15	Brown to Ann Bishop, Cambridge	22 June 1970
IM/GA/WRS/8343	Bishop, Ann	? 1959
EC/1959/03	Bishop, Ann: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/000385	Bishop, Ann	nd
HD/25/21	Presentation album for Henry Dale on his retirement from the National Institute for Medical Research	30 September 1942

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