Authorised form of name | Brown; Sir; George Lindor (1903 - 1971); 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 Bradley Prize Medal in Operative Surgery 1928 Feldberg Prize Lecturer 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 (19590 Honorary Secretary of Physiological Society 1941-1949 Honours: CBE 1947; Kt 1957
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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/72/150 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'Is relaxation an active process?' by Archibald Vivian Hill | 1949 |
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/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 | |
GLB | Papers of Sir George Lindor Brown | 1925-1970 |
IM/000602 | Brown, Sir George Lindor | 1960 |
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 |