| Authorised form of name | Folley; Sydney John (1906 - 1970) |
| Dates | 1906 - 1970 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Swindon, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 14/01/1906 |
| Date of death | 29/06/1970 |
| Occupation | Biochemist |
| Research field | Endocrinology |
| Lactation |
| Activity | Education:
Sanford Street Boys Elementary School, Swindon (1912-1918); Swindon and North Wilts. Secondary School and Technical Institution (1918-1924); Manchester University, Honours School of Chemistry, Bsc in chemistry (1927), Graham Colloid Laboratories, MSc properties of organosols of nickel (1928), PhD plastein formation (1931)
Career:
Assistant Lecturer in Biochemistry, University of Liverpool (1931); Physiology Department at the National Institute for Research in Dairying at Shinfield, Reading (1932-1970, head of Department from 1945);
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 15/03/1951 |
| Age at election | 45 |
| General context | Suffered attacks of tuberculosis. Vision detriorated from 1946, almost completely blind from 1959 following an unsuccesful operation. |
| Sources | Sources:
ODNB
References:
The Times (1 July 1970, obituary)
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1972 vol 18 pp 241-265, plate, by Alan S Parkes |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/276611956 |
| Royal Society code | NA1861 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1951/05 | Folley, Sydney John: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/GA/WS/4091 | Folley, Sydney John | nd |
| MS/815 | Academic theses of Sydney John Folley | |
| RR/59/79 | Referee's report by John Hammond, on a paper 'The effect of thyroxine on milk secretion and on the phosphatase of the blood and milk of the lactating cow' by Sydney John Folley and Paul White | [January 1936] |
| RR/64/11 | Referee's report by Francis Hugh Adam Marshall, on a paper 'The effect of sex hormones on lactation in the rat' by Sydney John Folley and S K Kon | [November 1937] |
| RR/65/91 | Referee's report by Alan Sterling Parkes, on a paper 'The mammary gland of the rhesus monkey under normal and experimental conditions' by Sydney John Folley, A N Guthkelch and Solly Zuckerman | October 1938 |
| RR/65/90 | Referee's report by Francis Hugh Adam Marshall, on a paper 'The effect of anterior pituitary extracts on established lactation in the cow' by Sydney John Folley and Frank George Young | May 1938 |
| RR/68/288 | Referee's report by Edward Charles Dodds, on a paper 'The response of the bovine ovary to pregnant mares’ serum and horse pituitary extract' by Sydney John Folley and F H Malpress | [1943] |
| RR/68/287 | Referee's report by Edward Charles Dodds, on a paper 'Studies on the absorption of subcutaneously implanted tablets of hexoestrol' by Sydney John Folley | [1943] |
| RR/53/81 | Referee's report by Alfred Joseph Clark, on a paper 'The effect of salts on cell permeability as shown by studies of milk secretion—(continued)' by Sydney John Folley and Geoffrey Lewis Peskett | [October 1934] |
| RR/59/80 | Referee's report by John Beresford Leathes, on a paper 'The effect of thyroxine on milk secretion and on the phosphatase of the blood and milk of the lactating cow' by Sydney John Folley and Paul White | [January 1936] |
| RR/65/31 | Referee's report by Francis Hugh Adam Marshall and memorandum by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'The effect of androgenic substances on the growth of the teat and mammary gland in the immature male guinea-pig' by A C Bottomley and Sydney John Folley | 5 July 1938 |
| RR/65/92 | Referee's report by Julian Sorell Huxley, on a paper 'The mammary gland of the rhesus monkey under normal and experimental conditions' by Sydney John Folley, A N Guthkelch and Solly Zuckerman | October 1938 |
| RR/78/50 | Referee's report by Sydney John Folley, on a paper 'Regeneration of rat ovarian tissue grafted after exposure to low temperatures' by Alan Sterling Parkes and A U Smith | 31 July 1952 |
| RR/78/53 | Referee's report by Sydney John Folley, on a paper 'Synthetic oestrogenic compounds related to stilbene and diphenylethane III' by Edward Charles Dodds, R L Huang, Wilfred Lawson and Sir Robert Robinson | 19 August 1952 |