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Authorised form of nameGilbert; Geoffrey Alan (1917 - 2005)
Dates1917 - 2005
NationalityBritish
Place of birthWatford, Hertfordshire, England
Date of birth03/12/1917
Place of deathBirmingham
Date of death01/03/2005
OccupationBiophysical scientist
ActivityEducation:
Emmanuel College, Cambridge University (BSc, PhD)
Career:
Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Birmingham (1943-1946), Senior Lecturer (1947-1961), Reader (1961-1969), Professor of Biochemistry (1969-1985, Emeritus); spent a year at Harvard Medical School (1946-1947); member of Government Grants Committee (Biological Sciences) and of British National Committee for Biochemistry; Chairman of British Biophysical Society (1974)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election15/03/1973
Age at election55
RelationshipsMarried (1948) Lilo Czigler de Egerszalok
SourceSources:
Obituary in Independent (16 March 2005)
CodeNA4673
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/GA/GGRS/8507Gilbert, Geoffrey Alan1988
RR/68/354Referee's report by Neil Kensington Adam, on a paper 'The combination of fibrous proteins with acids' by Geoffrey Alan Gilbert and Eric Keightley Rideal[1943]
RR/68/472Referee's report by Neil Kensington Adam, on a paper 'The combination of fibrous proteins with acids. II. The adsorption of dye anions' by Geoffrey Alan Gilbert[1944]
EC/1973/12Gilbert, Geoffrey Alan: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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