| Authorised form of name | Gaddum; Sir; John Henry (1900 - 1965); physiologist |
| Dates | 1900 - 1965 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Hale, Cheshire |
| Date of birth | 31/03/1900 |
| Date of death | 30/06/1965 |
| Research field | Physiology |
| Pharmacology |
| Activity | Education:
Miss Wallace's Day School, Bowdon, Cheshire; Moorland House School, Heswall, Cheshire; Rugby School; Trinity College Cambridge; University College Hospital, London
Career:
Wellcome Research Laboratories (1925-1927); National Institute for Medical Research, Hampstead (1927-1934); Chair of Pharmacology at the University of Cairo (1934-1935); Professor of Pharmacology at University College London (1935-1938); Chair of Pharmacology at College of the Pharmaceutical Society, London (1938); Chemical Defence Research Station, Porton Down (1939-1942); Chair of Materia Medica at University of Edinburgh (1942-1958); Director of Institute of Animal Physiology in Babraham, Cambridge (1958-1965); member of Medical Reseerch Council (1948-1951); corresponding member of the Societe Philomathique de Paris; honorary member of the Italian and Argentine Pharmacological Societies; member of the New York Acodemy of Sciences, and of the Deutsche Akademie fur Naturforschung; Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; Honarary LL.D Edinburgh.
Honours:
Kt 1964 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 22/03/1945 |
| Age at election | 44 |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
Council: 1954-1956 |
| Relationships | His wife, Iris Mary Harmer, MB, B.Chir., MRCP won first class honours in natural science tripos at Cambridge, and did outstanding clinical research at University College London, under Sir Thomas Lewis. Their joint publications in 1926 and 1927 provided some of the first experimental evidence for the release of histamine-like substances in the human skin in response to injury. Her grandfather, Frederic William Harmer, was a geologist and authority on on Pleicene Mollusca and glacial erratics; proposed for Fellowship to the Royal Society |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1967 vol 13 pp 57-77, plate, by W Feldberg
References:
A F Bristow, T Barrowcliffe and D R Bangham, 'Standardization of biological medicines: the first hundred years, 1900-2000' in NR 2006 vol 60 pp 271-289
R Pohancenik 'Pharmacology and War: the papers of Sir Henry Gaddum (1900-65)' NR 2007 Vol 61 pp 347-348
Alan W Cuthbert ' A brief history of the British Pharmacological Society' , BJP [British Pharmacological Sciety] Volume 147 ((S1), January 2006 pp S2 - S8 |
| Code | NA1826 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| JHG/4 | Reviews and Theses Reports | 1939-1957 |
| JHG/9 | Correspondence | 1960-1965 |
| GLB/44/29 | J H Gaddum, Pharmacological Laboratory, University of Edinburgh to Brown | 21 August 1952 |
| MDA/A/25/11 | Correspondence of A V Hill, J H Gaddum - Arthur Geddes | 1940s |
| JHG/10 | Conferences | 1937-1960s |
| JHG/6 | Course Lecture Notes | 1940s-1958 |
| JHG/3 | Working Papers | 1920s-1960s |
| JHG/11 | Juvenilia and Souvenirs | 1920s-1950s |
| JHG/5 | Lecture Scripts | 1930s-1960s |
| JHG/9/5/13 | Letter from Sir Henry Dale to J H Gaddum | 25 December 1935 |
| JHG/1 | Diaries, Visit to America | 1948 |
| CMB/281/49 | Notes on papers passed for publication in the Proceedings | 1962 |
| HB/12/53 | Letter from J H Gaddum, Pharmacological Laboratory, University New Buildings, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, to Henry Barcroft, Dept of Physiology, Queen's University, Belfast | 31 October 1946 |
| OL/20/17 | Letter from J H Gaddum to Otto Loewi | 23 July 1953 |
| JHG/8 | Reviews and Publications | 1930s-1960s |
| MM/22/80 | Letter from John Henry Gaddum, Department of Pharmacology, University New Buildings, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, to Maurice M Rapport, 444 East 68th Street, New York 21, New York, USA | 26 October 1951 |
| JHG/7 | Slides and Photographs | 1930s-1960s |
| RR/43/33 | Referee's report by Frank Horton, on a paper 'A simple method of measuring surface tension' by John Henry Gaddum | August 1931 |
| JHG/2 | Laboratory notebooks kept by John Henry Gaddum | 1922-1964 |
| IM/GA/WS/1805 | Gaddum, Sir John Henry | 1946 |
| MM/22/78 | Copy letter from John Henry Gaddum, Department of Pharmacology, University New Buildings, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, to Dr [Maurice] Rapport | 24 August 1951 |
| JHG | Sir John Henry Gaddum Papers | 1922-1965 |
| HD/25/21 | Presentation album for Henry Dale on his retirement from the National Institute for Medical Research | 30 September 1942 |
| EC/1945/04 | Gaddum, Sir John Henry: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/41/30 | Referee's report by Charles James Martin, on a paper 'The production of histamine from histidine by ultra-violet light and the absorption spectra of these substances' by R B Bourdillon, John Henry Gaddum and R G C Jenkins | 26 April 1930 |