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Authorised form of namePaton; Sir; William Drummond MacDonald (1917 - 1993)
Dates1917 - 1993
NationalityBritish
Date of birth05/05/1917
Date of death17/10/1993
ActivityHonours:
CBE 1968; Kt 1979
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election15/03/1956
Age at election38
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1996 vol 42 pp 289-314, plate, by H P Rang and Lord Perry of Walton
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/212463856
CodeNA2109
Archives associated with this Fellow
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GLB/65/47/110Brown to W D M Paton, Department of Pharmacology, Oxford16 April 1963
GLB/57/15List of publications by W D M Patonc1969
GLB/24/22'Ballade to a Returning Traveller' by W D M Paton, Hampstead 29 October 1947
GLB/24/13Thoughts by Bill Paton during the Royal Society discussion meeting of Freezing Tissuemid 20th century
GLB/49/2/2/55W D M Paton, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford to Brown4 October 1968
GLB/65/18/5Bill Paton, Department of Pharmacology, Royal College of Surgeons to Brown24 January 1956
GLB/25/17Newspaper cutting of a cartoon sent by Professor W D M Patonmid 20th century
GLB/65/84W D M PatonDecember 1953 - January 1971
GLB/21/14W D M Paton, Department of Pharmocology, Oxford to Brown6 March 1967
GLB/63/2/21Application form for Professor W D M Paton to Smith Kline and French Foundation[c 1970]
PB/9/1/101/6Royal Society correspondence1968
GLB/2/1Professor W D M Paton, Royal College of Surgeons of England to Brown1 May 1957
GLB/24/12Thoughts by Bill Paton during the Royal Society discussion meeting of Freezing Tissuemid 20th century
HWT/5/13Agenda (annotated by Thompson), papers and minutes of meeting held on 1 March 1968March 1968
HWT/48/3/10/1Minutes of meetings held 17 August 1978 and 7 February 1979 and correspondence arising1978-1979
PB/1/34/1Letters of congratulation on Blackett's Life Peerage1969
IM/003455Paton, Sir William Drummond MacDonaldnd
JV/11/7/166Letter from Sir William [Bill] Paton, FRS (University Department of Pharmacology) to Sir John Vane 4 January 1984
GLB/24/53Note from Bill [W D M Paton], Royal College of Surgeons of England, Department of Pharmacology, London1956
IM/GA/WRS/9670Paton, Sir William Drummond McDonaldnd
GLB/2/2Brown to Professor W D M Paton, Examination Hall, Queen Square, London6 May 1957
EC/1956/16Paton, Sir William Drummond MacDonald: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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