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RefNoEC/1937/04
Previous numbersCert XIV, 228; A02054
LevelItem
TitleDrury, Sir Alan Nigel: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationDistinguished for: - (1) A very important series of independent articles upon the refractory period of, and conduction in, heart muscle (and their interrelations), culminating in the demonstration of important errors in previous measurements, and in discoveries fundamental to the study of these attributes in mammalian muscle; (2) Studies of coronary circulation; (3) discovery of adenine compounds in heart muscle and other tissues and the further study of the physiological action of adenosine.
ProposersThomas Lewis; C Lovatt Evans; T R Elliot; A E Boycott; Joseph Barcroft; W B Hardy; T Graham Brown; C S Sherrington; G V Anrep; E B Verney
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Drury, Sir Alan Nigel: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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CodePersonNameDates
NA2182Drury; Sir; Alan Nigel (1889 - 1980)1889 - 1980
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