| Reference number | EC/1971/32 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XIX, 32 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Wilkie, Douglas Robert: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Has made numerous experimental and theoretical contributions to the study of muscle, and his profound and critical understanding of the field has been an important factor in recent progress. His early work provided the best data available even now on the force-velocity, active-state and series-elastic characteristics of muscle. More recently, his simultaneous measurements of thermal, mechanical and chemical changes in a wide variety of types of contraction have shown that the total energy liberated as work and heat is accounted for by the amount of phosphocreatine hydrolysed. He is the only person able to make all these different types of technically difficult measurements himself and so provide the essential condition for reliable correlations to be made between them. He has greatly clarified the application of thermodynamics to muscle. His new methods for suddenly freezing a muscle is providing data of a quality previously unattainable concerning the chemical changes during contraction itself. |
| Access status | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA4874 | Wilkie; Douglas Robert (1922 - 1998) | 1922 - 1998 |