| Authorised form of name | Brown; Sir; George Lindor (1903 - 1971); Knight physiologist |
| Other forms of name | Lindor |
| Dates | 1903 - 1971 |
| Date of birth | 09/02/1903 |
| Date of death | 22/02/1971 |
| Research field | Physiology |
| Activity | Education:
B.Sc.Hons (Physiology) 1924, MSc. 1925 MB, Ch.B. Manch 1928, Manchester University
Career:
Lecturer in Physiology, Leeds University 1928-1934; member of scientific staff of National Institute for Medical Research 1934-1939; Jodrell Professor of Physiology, University College London 1949-1960; Waynflete Professor of Physiology and Fellow of Magdalen College, University of Oxford, 1960-1967; Principal of Hertford College Oxford, 1967-1971
Awards:
Bradley Prize Medal in Operative Surgery 1928; Feldberg Prize Lecture (1961); Honorary doctorates from St Andrews (1958), University of Brazil (1958), Liege (1959), Leicester (1968), and Monash (1969); Member of Danish and Brazilian Academies of Science; Officer of the Order of the Southern Cross of Brazil (1959); Honorary Secretary of Physiological Society 1941-1949
Honours:
CBE 1947; Kt 1957 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 21/03/1946 |
| Age at election | 43 |
| Royal Society activity | Royal Society roles:
Sec 1955-1963; VP 1956-1963
Lectures:
Croonian 1964 |
| Relationships | Married 1930 Jane Rosamond Lees, daughter of C H Lees, Professor of Physics in London and Vice Principal of Queen Mary College. Had one daughter, Helen (Mrs Aly Uygur) who graduated in medicine; Christopher, an engineer; Stephen, an airline piot; and Humphrey, a biomedical engineer. |
| Sources | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1974 vol 20 pp 41-73, plate, by F C MacIntosh and W D M Paton |
| Royal Society code | NA1877 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| HF/1/17/1/26/7 | Letter from Howard Walter Florey to Lindor Brown, Department of Physiology, Oxford | 14 June 1961 |
| HF/1/17/1/36/39 | Letter from Lindor Brown, Department of Physiology, Oxford to Howard Walter Florey | 22 January 1965 |
| HF/1/19/6/54/17 | Letter from Lindor Brown, Department of Physiology, Oxford to Howard Walter Florey | 16 February 1967 |
| HF/1/17/1/35/44 | Lindor Brown, Department of Physiology, Oxford to H W THompson | 13 February 1965 |
| HF/1/17/4/8/50 | G Lindor Brown, University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford to David Martin, Executive Secretary, Royal Society | 20 June 1962 |
| HF/1/17/1/47/73 | Copy of a letter from Lindor Brown, Department of Physiology, University of Oxford to Harry Melville, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, London | 17 April 1964 |
| HWT/31/16 | Royal Society Scientific Information Committee | April 1967 |
| IM/000604 | Brown, Sir George Lindor | nd |
| HWT/40/13 | Correspondence and papers regarding miscellaneous ICSU business | May 1964 |
| MS/739 | Notes for the Biographical Memoir of George Lindor Brown | |
| HD/25/23 | Photograph of guests at dinner in honour of 90th birthday of Henry Dale | 11 June 1965 |
| RR/55/67 | Referee's report by Alfred Joseph Clark, on a paper 'The pharmacology of ergometrine' by George Lindor Brown and Henry Hallett Dale | September 1935 |
| RR/72/150 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'Is relaxation an active process?' by Archibald Vivian Hill | 1949 |
| RR/71/239 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'The gyroscopic mechanism of the halteres of Diptera' by John William Sutton Pringle | 1948 |
| RR/72/151 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'Does heat production precede mechanical response in muscular contraction?' by Archibald Vivian Hill | 1949 |
| IM/GA/WS/2517 | Brown, Sir George Lindor | 1946 |
| HF/1/17/1/26/9 | Letter from Lindor Brown, Department of Physiology, Oxford to Howard Walter Florey | 16 June 1961 |
| IM/GA/WRS/8640 | Brown, Sir George Lindor | c 1960 |
| IM/000603 | Brown, Sir George Lindor | nd |
| RR/71/56 | Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'Fatigue and neuromuscular block in mammalian skeletal muscle' by George Lindor Brown and Benedict Delisle Burns | [1948] |
| EC/1946/03 | Brown, Sir George Lindor: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| HD/25/21 | Presentation album for Henry Dale on his retirement from the National Institute for Medical Research | 30 September 1942 |
| RR/71/57 | Letter from Archibald Vivian Hill, to Edward Salisbury, regarding a paper 'Fatigue and neuromuscular block in mammalian skeletal muscle' by George Lindor Brown and Benedict Delisle Burns | 30 August 1948 |
| RR/74/17 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'A note on the heat activation in a muscle twitch' by Archibald Vivian Hill | [1950] |
| RR/74/68 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'Experimental investigations on the afferent fibres in muscle nerves' by L G Brock, John Carew Eccles and W Rall | 7 February 1951 |
| RR/76/34 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'Changes of energy in a muscle during very slow stretches' by B C Abbott and X M Aubert | 14 May 1951 |
| RR/76/10 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'The influence of temperature on the tension developed in an isometric twitch' by Archibald Vivian Hill | 13 February 1951 |
| RR/74/2 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'The development of the active state of muscle during the latent period' by Archibald Vivian Hill | 28 February 1950 |
| RR/76/8 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'The transition from rest to full activity in muscle: the velocity of shortening' by Archibald Vivian Hill | 13 February 1951 |
| RR/80/11 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'Chemical change and mechanical response in stimulated muscle' by Archibald Vivian Hill | 7 March 1953 |
| RR/76/9 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'The earliest manifestation of the mechanical response of striated muscle' by Archibald Vivian Hill | 13 February 1951 |
| RR/78/12 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'The nodes of Ranvier' by A Hess and John Zachary Young | 7 April 1952 |
| RR/74/1 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'The series elastic component of muscle' by Archibald Vivian Hill | [1950] |
| IM/000602 | Brown, Sir George Lindor | 1960 |
| RR/76/33 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'The absorption of work by a muscle stretched during a single twitch or a short tetanus' by B C Abbot, X M Aubert and Archibald Vivian Hill | 14 May 1951 |
| RR/80/42 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'The ionic fluxes in frog muscle' by Richard Darwin Keynes | 5 November 1953 |
| RR/76/7 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'The effect of series compliance on the tension developed in a muscle twitch' by Archibald Vivian Hill | 13 February 1951 |
| RR/78/59 | Letter from D C Martin, on a paper 'Synaptic transmission. An analysis of the electrical activity of the lateral geniculate nucleus in the cat following optic nerve stimulation' by Peter Orlebar Bishop, to George Lindor Brown | 23 January 1953 |
| RR/74/70 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'Repetitive monosynaptic activation of motoneurones' by John Carew Eccles and W Rall | 12 February 1951 |
| RR/78/60 | Letter from George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'Synaptic transmission. An analysis of the electrical activity of the lateral geniculate nucleus in the cat following optic nerve stimulation' by Peter Orlebar Bishop, to D C Martin | 10 February 1953 |
| RR/78/55 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'Synaptic transmission. An analysis of the electrical activity of the lateral geniculate nucleus in the cat following optic nerve stimulation' by Peter Orlebar Bishop | 5 August 1952 |
| GLB | Papers of Sir George Lindor Brown FRS, physiologist | 1925-1970 |
| MDA/N/1/62 | Correspondence between George Lindor Brown and the Royal Society | 1-8 May 1952 |