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Authorised form of nameDuke-Elder; Sir; William Stewart (1898 - 1978)
Other forms of nameWilliam Stewart Duke
Other forms of surnameElder
Dates1898 - 1978
NationalityBritish
Date of birth22 April 1898
Date of death27/03/1978
ActivityHonours:
Kt 1933; KCVO 1946; GCVO 1958
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election24/03/1960
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1980 vol 26 pp 85-105, plate, by T K Lyle, Sir Stephen Miller and N H Ashton
CodeNA1919
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
RR/43/19Referee's report by Thomas Lewis, on a paper 'The vascular responses of the eye' by P M Duke-Elder and William Stewart Duke-ElderJune 1931
RR/41/69Referee's report by Hamilton Hartridge, on a paper 'The contraction of the extrinsic muscles of the eye by choline and nicotine' by William Stewart Duke-Elder and P M Duke-ElderOctober 1930
EC/1960/07Duke-Elder, Sir William Stewart: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/GA/WRS/8749Duke-Elder, Sir William Stewartnd
RR/46/80Referee's report by William Bate Hardy, on a paper 'The elasticity of the vitreous body' by E B Robertson and William Stewart Duke-Elder[October 1932]
WF/237/1Grant application from Institute of Ophthalmology to the Wolfson Foundation10 June 1964
RR/46/81Referee's report by William Bate Hardy, on a paper 'A note on the physical properties of dilute plasma gels and an analogy with the vitreous body' by E B Robertson and William Stewart Duke-Elder[October 1932]
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