| Authorised form of name | Tait; Sylvia Agnes Sophia (1917 - 2003) |
| Other forms of surname | Simpson |
| Dates | 1917 - 2003 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Tumen, Siberia, Russia |
| Date of birth | 08/01/1917 |
| Place of death | Lymington, Hampshire |
| Date of death | 28/02/2003 |
| Research field | Endocrinology |
| Activity | Education:
Family returned to England in 1920; Ealing School; University College London, began studying German, switched to Zoology (1939); postgraduate research at Oxford University
Career:
Research Assistant, Courtauld Institute of Biochemistry, Middlesex Hospital Medical School (1944-1955) with James Tait and Tadeus Reichstein; Senior scientist, Worcester Foundation of experimental Biology, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts (1958-1970); Research Associate and Co-Director, Bio-physical endocrine unit, Department of Physics as Applied to Medicine, Middlesex Hospital Medical School (1970-1982); awarded Tadeus Reichstein Award of International Society for Endocrinology; Gregory Pincus Memorial Award; Ciba award of the American Heart Association for Hypertensive Research |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 19/03/1959 |
| Age at election | 42 |
| Relationships | Daughter of a Scottish agronomist and his Russian wife, one of the first women to graduate in Mathematics of the University of Moscow; married (1940) Flight Lieutenant Anthony Simpson (killed in action near Bergen, Norway 1941); married (1956) James Francis Tait, FRS - first husband and wife team to be elected Fellows of the Royal Society on the same day |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2006 vol 52 pp 379-399, plate, by Derek A Denton and Iain MacIntyre
The Independent (12 March 2003); Daily Telegraph (26 March 2003); Guardian (21 March 2003); The Times (31 March 2003)
AssocMaterial:
NCUACS 128/1/04. Papers deposited in Archives and Manuscripts Section, Wellcome Library, London |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/34227529 |
| Code | NA306 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/GA/RGRS/7149 | Tait, Sylvia Agnes Sophia | 1977 |
| EC/1959/23 | Tait, Sylvia Agnes Sophia: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |