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Authorised form of nameAbercrombie; Michael (1912 - 1979)
Dates1912 - 1979
NationalityBritish
Place of birthRyton, Dymock, Gloucestershire, England
Date of birth14/08/1912
Place of deathCambridge
Date of death28/05/1979
Research fieldBiology
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election20/03/1958
Age at election45
RSActivityLectures:
Croonian 1978
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1980 vol 26 pp 1-15, plate, by Sir Peter Brian Medawar
CodeNA3238
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/000009Abercrombie, Michaelnd
PIF/A/1Personal information file: Michael Abercrombie20th century
PB/9/1/101/6Royal Society correspondence1968
HWT/5/13Agenda (annotated by Thompson), papers and minutes of meeting held on 1 March 1968March 1968
RR/72/4Referee's report by John Zachary Young, on a paper 'The influence of nerve fibres on Schwann cell migration investigated in tissue culture' by Michael Abercrombie, M L Johnson and G A Thomas1949
RR/72/1Referee's report by John Zachary Young, on a paper 'The effects of antero-posterior reversal of lengths of the primitive streak in the chick' by Michael Abercrombie7 August 1949
RR/72/3Referee's report by Conrad Hal Waddington, on a paper 'The effects of antero-posterior reversal of lengths of the primitive streak in the chick' by Michael Abercrombie 1949
EC/1958/01Abercrombie, Michael: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/72/2Letter from Conrad Hal Waddington, on a paper 'The effects of antero-posterior reversal of lengths of the primitive streak in the chick' by Michael Abercrombie to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society18 August 1949
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