| RefNo | EC/1981/31 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XXI, 31 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Phillips, John Guest: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 1978 |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Distinguished for his discovery that prolactin alone is the pituitary factor which serves as a fresh water survival hormone in fishes: this hormone is now known to be important in osmoregulation in vertebrates generally, including foetal mammals. Phillips and his associates were also the first to report that adrenocortical secretions are, with minor exceptions, chemically uniform in the vertebrate series and that glucocorticoids have an additional, and principal, role in salt and water metabolism. These classical findings have found their main focus in Phillips' extensive work on the endocrine mechanisms controlling activities of salt glands in birds. More recently he has become interested in the endocrine changes accompanying ageing, especially changes in the pituitary-adrenal and adrenal-gonadal axes and he now Honorary Director of the newly established Wolfson Laboratory for Research in Gerontology in the University of Hull. Phillips was awarded the Scientific Medal of The Zoological Society of London in 1970 and the Medal of the Society for Endocrinology in 1971. |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA2002 | Phillips; John Guest (1933 - 1987) | 1933 - 1987 |