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Authorised form of nameGell; Philip George Houthem (1914 - 2001)
Dates1914 - 2001
NationalityBritish
Place of birthDublin, Ireland
Date of birth20/10/1914
Date of death03/05/2001
Research fieldImmunology
ActivityEducation:
Winton House, Winchester; Stowe; Trinity College, Cambridge.
Career:
Staff, Emergency Public Health Laboratory Service (Workd War 2); staff, National Institute for Medical Research (1943); Staff, Department of Experimental Pathology, University of Birmingham (1948); studied antibodies and the immune system; set up Birmingham's MSc course in immunology (1963); Professor of Experimental Pathology, University of Birmingham (1966-1978); co-edited 'Clincial aspects of immunology' (1968); after retiring, did research work on viruses at Cambridge; was a talented artist and a published poet
Memberships:
British Society for Immunology (founder)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election20/03/1969
Age at election54
RelationshipsSon of Major P F Gell of the 14th Lancers; married (1941) Albinia; one son (predeceased him), one daughter
SourceSources:
Guardian 22/05/2001
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2003 vol 49 pp 163-178, plate, by Arthur M Silverstein
CodeNA3643
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/GA/GRS/5551Gell, Philip George Houthemnd
EC/1969/12Gell, Philip George Houthem: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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