| Authorised form of name | Gale; Ernest Frederick (1914 - 2005) |
| Dates | 1914 - 2005 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Luton, Bedfordshire, England |
| Date of birth | 15/07/1914 |
| Date of death | 07/03/2005 |
| Occupation | Microbiologist |
| Activity | Education:
Weston-super-Mare; St John's College, Cambridge (undergraduate (1936), posgraduate senior student (1939)
Career:
Beit memorial fellow, St John's College, Cambridge (1941); Medical Research Council Unit for Chemical Microbiology, became head on Marjory Stephenson's death; Reader in Chemical Microbiology, University of Cambridge (1948); Professor of Chemical Microbiology, Cambridge University (1960-1981); Herter Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (1948); Hannah Lecturer, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio (1951); Harvey Lecturer, New York (1955); Meetings secretary (1956-1958), international representative (1965-1967) and president (1967-1969) of Society for General Microbiology; member of International Union of Biochemistry Commission on Enzymes (1957-1961)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 19/03/1953 |
| Age at election | 38 |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
Council: 1962-1964
Lectures:
Leeuwenhoek 1956 |
| Relationships | Married Eiry (died 2003) |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoir 2007, Volume 53, pp 143-162 by P E Reynolds
Obituary in The Guardian (1 April 2005) |
| Code | NA4260 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1953/10 | Gale, Ernest Frederick: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/GA/WS/4441 | Gale, Ernest Frederick | nd |
| MS/916 | Lecture notes by Gordon Elliott Fogg | 1938-1946 |