| Authorised form of name | Phillips; David Chilton (1924 - 1999); Baron Phillips of Ellesmere |
| Dates | 1924 - 1999 |
| Place of birth | Ellesmere, Shropshire, England |
| Date of birth | 07/03/1924 |
| Date of death | 23/02/1999 |
| Activity | Education:
Church of England infants and elementary schools, Ellesmere; High School for Boys, Oswestry; University College, Cardiff. Graduated (1944, wartime degree; 1948 1st class Hons, Physics)
Career:
Royal Navy Radar Officer (World War II); demobilised (1947); research in X-ray crystallography (1948); National Research Laboratories, Ottawa, Canada: Post-doctoral Fellow, Crystallography Laboratory (1951-1953), Research Staff (1953-1955); invited at the suggestion of Dorothy Hodgkin (FRS 1947) to join Research Staff, Royal Institution; Professor of Molecular Biophysics, Oxford (1966); Member, Medical Research Council (MRC) (1974-1978); founder Chairman, Cell Biology and Disorders Board (1974-1976); Royal Society assessor on MRC (1978-1983); Chairman, Advisory Board for the Research Councils (1983-1993); resigned Chair (1990), after which it received an endowment and was renamed the David Phillips Professorship of Molecular Biophysics; non-executive director, Celltech (1982); Trustee, Wolfson Foundation (1988); editor, 'Biochemistry'; member, Davy-Faraday Laboratory Committee, Royal Institution, London; non-executive Chairman, Finsbury Communications
Honours:
Kt 1979; KBE 1989; Baron 1994 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 16/03/1967 |
| Age at election | 43 |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
Council: 1969-1970, 1971-1973, 1976-1983; VP 1972-1973, 1976-1983; Sec 1976-1983
Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1975
Lectures:
UK-Canada Rutherford 1990 |
| Relationships | Son of Charles Harry Phillips, master tailor and Methodist local preacher, and his wife Edith Harriet midwife and church organist, daughter of Samuel Finney MP; middle name was the maiden name of his mother's great grandmother; married (1960) Diana Kathleen Hutchinson, W L Bragg's secretary; one daughter |
| Source | AssocMaterial:
NCUACS 45/1/94. Papers deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2000 vol 46 pp 377-401, plate, by L N Johnson
References:
D Blow and S Wallwork, 'Prehistory of the British Crystallographic Association' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 177-186 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/46844361 |
| Code | NA3606 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1967/20 | Phillips, David Chilton: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| PB/1/21 | Photocopies of letters of biographical interest. The originals are held by Lady Blackett. Some other photcopies have been distributed to the appropriate folders (see A.11, A.14, A.17, A.24, A.34) | |
| IM/GA/JGRS/8308/17 | Phillips, Sir David Chilton | 1983 |
| MS/909/4 | Letters to Keith Dalziel | 1983-1988 |