| Authorised form of name | Rivers; Rosalind Venetia Pitt- (1907 - 1990); biochemist |
| Other forms of name | Rosalind Venetia |
| Other forms of surname | Pitt-Rivers |
| Dates | 1907 - 1990 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | 18 Mansfield Street, London, England |
| Date of birth | 0/03/1907 |
| Place of death | Her home, Hinton St Mary, Dorset, England |
| Date of death | 14/01/1990 |
| Occupation | biochemist |
| Research field | Physiology |
| Endocrinology |
| Biochemistry |
| Thyroid hormones |
| Activity | Education:
At home, by a governess; Notting Hill High School, London (c 1920-1924); Bedford College, London. BSc (1930, top of the University), MSc (1931), PhD (1939)
Career:
Research student under Sir Charles Harington, Department of Pathological Chemistry, University College Hospital Medical School, London (1937); studied thyroid hormones; moved with Harington to the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), Hampstead, London (1942); worked at Southe-East Blood Transfusion Unit, Maidstone Kent (1940-1941); worked on milk yields, University College Hospital; seconded to the 21 Army Group, to go to Belgium (1945) and worked with Dame Janet Vaughan (FRS 1979) on nutritional study of force-marched prisoners of war; returned to NIMR (1945); William Julius Mickle Fellow of the University of London (1951); member, Bedford College Coucil (1956); Member of Council, University College Hospital Medical School (1960); President, European Thyroid Association (1971); retired (1972); continued work first in Department of Zoology and then in the Department of Pharmacology, University College, London; Fellow, Bedford College, London (1973); Honorary President, International Congress of Endocrinology, Melbourne (1980); retired to moved to the Pitt-Rivers estate at Hinton St Mary, Sturminster Newton, Dorset (1985); died of pneumonia and was buried on the estate.
Memberships:
Society of Endocrinology, Mexico (1959, Honorary Member)
London Thyroid Club (President 1965)
Society for Endocrinology (1977, Honorary Member)
Royal Society of Medicine (1983, Honorary Fellow)
Hon FRCP (1986) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 18/03/1954 |
| Age at election | 47 |
| Proposer | Norman Wingate Pirie |
| Richard Laurence Millington Synge |
| Archer John Porter Martin |
| Albert Neuberger |
| Sydney John Folley |
| Guy Frederic Marrian |
| John Henry Gaddum |
| James Henderson Burns |
| Rudolph Albert Peters |
| Albert Charles Chibnall |
| Frank George Young |
| Charles Robert Harington |
| Relationships | Parents: Brigadier-General the Hon Anthony Henry and the Hon Sylvia Stanley
Spouse: (1931) George Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers (divorced 1937)
Children: Anthony Pitt-Rivers |
| OtherInfo | Made important contributions to knowledge of the biosynthesis of thyroxine and of the mode of action of antithyroid substances.
Identified with J Gross, the occurrence of triiodothyronine in the thyroid gland and the blood, and the demonstrated that this compound is more active than thyroxine. |
| 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 | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1994 vol 39 pp 325-348, plate, by J R Tata |
| Code | NA7005 |