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Authorised form of nameCallow; Robert Kenneth (1901 - 1983)
Dates1901 - 1983
NationalityBritish
Date of birth15/02/1901
Date of death12/04/1983
Research fieldBiochemistry
ActivityEducation:
City of London School (1911-1919)
Career:
Isolated vitamin D; synthesized cortisone
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election20/03/1958
Age at election57
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1984 vol 30 pp 91-116, plate, by A Neuberger
CodeNA1834
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
IM/GA/WRS/9480Callow, Robert Kennethnd
CMB/281/36Notes on papers passed for publication in the Proceedings1961
EC/1958/08Callow, Robert Kenneth: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/62/109Referee's report by Thomas Martin Lowry, on a paper 'Relations between optical rotatory power and constitution in the steroids' by Robert Kenneth Callow and Frank George Young[June 1936]
HD/25/21Presentation album for Henry Dale on his retirement from the National Institute for Medical Research 30 September 1942
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