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Authorised form of nameRichards; Alfred Newton (1876 - 1966)
Dates1876 - 1966
NationalityAmerican
Place of birthStamford, New York, USA
Date of birth22 March 1876
Place of deathBryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Date of death24/03/1966
Research fieldPhysiology
Pharmacology
ActivityHonours:
CBE 1948
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election18/06/1942
RSActivityLectures:
Croonian 1938
SourceSources:
DSB vol 18 pp 734-736
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1967 vol 13 pp 327-342, plate, by C F Schmidt
Notes:
DSB vol 18 gives an incorrect year of death, 1976.
CodeNA2206
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1942/22Richards, Alfred Newton: certificate of election to the Royal Society
HF/1/17/5/1/152Letter from A N Bryan Brown, Worcester College, Oxford to Howard Walter Florey20 January 1961
RR/36/50Referee's report by Arthur Edwin Boycott, on a paper 'Experiments concerning the question of secretion of phenolsulphone-phthalein by the renal tubule' by Alfred Newton Richards and John B. Barnwell15 June 1927
HD/25/21Presentation album for Henry Dale on his retirement from the National Institute for Medical Research 30 September 1942
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