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Authorised form of nameDrury; Sir; Alan Nigel (1889 - 1980)
Dates1889 - 1980
Date of birth03 November 1889
Date of death02/08/1980
Research fieldPhysiology
Pathology
ActivityEducation:
MA; MD
Honours:
CBE 1944; Kt 1950
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election06/05/1937
Royal Society activityRoyal Society roles:
VP 1955-1956
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1981 vol 27 pp 173-198, plate, by R A Kekwick
Royal Society codeNA2182
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1937/04Drury, Sir Alan Nigel: certificate of election to the Royal Society
P/0171Portrait of Drury, Sir Alan Nigel1940s
IM/001225Drury, Sir Alan Nigel1951
RR/65/190Referee's report by Alan Nigel Drury, on a paper 'The origin of the erythema curve and the pharmacological action of ultra-violet radiation' by
Joseph Stanley Mitchell
May 1938
RR/65/185Referee's report by Alan Nigel Drury, on a paper 'A quantitative investigation into the enterohepatic circulation of bile salts in the cat' by John Mellanby and S F SuffolkSeptember 1938
IM/GA/WS/2165Drury, Sir Alan Nigel1946
IM/001203Drury, Sir Alan Nigelnd
RR/65/84Referee's report by Alan Nigel Drury, on a paper 'The histology and self-differentiating capacity of the abnormal cartilage in a new lethal mutation in the rat (Rattus norvegicus)' by Honor Bridget Fell and Hans GrünebergJanuary 1939
RR/64/36Referee's report by Alan Nigel Drury, on a paper 'An analysis of the “pleiotropic” effects of a new lethal mutation in the rat (Mus norvegicus)' by Hans Grüneberg[November 1937]
RR/64/37Second referee's report by Alan Nigel Drury, on a paper 'An analysis of the “pleiotropic” effects of a new lethal mutation in the rat (Mus norvegicus)' by Hans Grüneberg19 December 1937
RR/67/99Referee's report by Alan Nigel Drury, on a paper 'The heart of the salamander (salamandra salamandra l.), with special reference to the conducting (connecting) system and its bearing on the phylogeny of the conducting systems of mammalian and avian hearts' by F Davies and E T B FrancisNovember 1940
RR/76/21Referee's report by Alan Nigel Drury, on a paper 'The effect of peptic digestion on the properties of diphtheria antitoxin' by Sir Percival Hartley30 March 1951
MC/30/106Letter from [John Newport] Langley, Journal of Physiology, Hedgerley Lodge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, to [William Bate] Hardy, [Royal Society]13 March 1915
MC/30/108Letter from [John Newport] Langley, Journal of Physiology, Hedgerley Lodge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, to [William Bate] Hardy, The Biological Secretary, Royal Society25 April 1915
MC/30/109Letter from [John Newport] Langley, Journal of Physiology, Hedgerley Lodge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, The Assistant Secretary, Royal Society27 April 1915
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