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Authorised form of nameStopford; John Sebastian Bach (1888 - 1961); Baron Stopford of Fallowfield
Dates1888 - 1961
NationalityBritish
Place of birthHindley Green, Wigan, Lancashire, England
Date of birth25 June 1888
Place of deathArnside, Westmoreland
Date of death06/03/1961
ActivityEducation:
MD
Career:
Professor of Anatomy, University of Manchester
Honours:
MBE 1920; Kt 1941; KBE 1955; Baron 1958
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election12/05/1927
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1961 vol 7 pp 271-279, plate, by W E Le Gros Clark and W Mansfield Cooper
CodeNA5195
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
PB/4/8/3Correspondence with George Baron, also JM Nuttall, JSB Stopford (on a reported 'televisor' invention) 1942
PB/6/2/1/3/1Correspondence with members of the Committee and other interested parties, 1945-1946August 1945-March 1946
PB/8/19/1Correspondence with JSB Stopford (Lord Stopford of Fallowfield), Vice-Chancellor re Manchester University representative, and with organisers of conference.1949
RR/35/112Referee's report by John Sebastian Bach Stopford, on a paper 'The brain of ornithorhynchus anatinus' by Marion HinesDecember 1927
RR/40/85Referee's report by John Sebastian Bach Stopford, on a paper 'A study of the arteries of the brain of the spiny anteater (Echidna aculeata), to illustrate the principles of arterial distribution' by Joseph L. ShellshearJune 1929
RR/52/2Referee's report by John Sebastian Bach Stopford, on a paper 'The brain-stem and cerebellum of echidna aculeata' by A A AbbieApril 1934
RR/52/94Referee's report by John Sebastian Bach Stopford, on a paper 'The brain of the Aboriginal Australian. A study in cerebral morphology' by Joseph L ShellshearDecember 1934
NLB/70/563Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Sebastian Bach] Stopford, FRS20 May 1927
RR/52/3Referee's report by John Sebastian Bach Stopford, on a paper 'The projection of the forebrain on the pons and cerebellum' by A A AbbieMay 1934
EC/1927/13Stopford, John Sebastian Bach: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/GA/WS/1256Stopford, Sir John Sebastian Bachnd
PB/1/17Nobel Prize1948
RR/51/64Referee's report by John Stopford, Baron Stopford of Fallowfield, on a paper 'A comparative study of the endocranial cast of Sinanthropus' by Joseph L Shellshear and Grafton Elliot Smith[December 1933]
RR/39/18Referee's report by John Sebastian Bach Stopford, Baron Stopford of Fallowfield, on a paper 'Physiological and anatomical evidence for the existence of nerve tracts connecting the hypothalamus with spinal sympathetic centres' by J Beattie, G R Brow and C N H Long[October 1929]
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