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Authorised form of nameKay; Herbert Davenport (1893 - 1976)
Dates1893 - 1976
Date of birth09 September 1893
Date of death24/11/1976
ActivityHonours:
OBE (military) 1919; CBE 1946
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election22/03/1945
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1977 vol 23 pp 283-310, plate, by Sir Kenneth Blaxter
CodeNA616
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EC/1945/11Kay, Herbert Davenport: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/60/1Referee's report by John Beresford Leathes, on a paper 'The precursors in cows’ blood of milk fat and other milk constituents' by W Richards Graham, T S G Jones and Herbert Davenport KayJanuary 1936
RR/60/3Referee's report by John Hammond, on a paper 'A convenient method for obtaining bovine arterial blood' by W Richards Graham, Herbert Davenport Kay and R A McIntoshJanuary 1936
RR/72/6Letter from Herbert Davenport Kay, on a paper 'A study of the component glycerides of cow and buffalo milk fats with reference to the possible mechanism of their production during lactation' by K T Achaya and Thomas Percy Hilditch to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society28 October 1949
IM/GA/WS/2749Kay, Herbert Davenportnd
RR/60/2Referee's report by John Hammond, on a paper 'The precursors in cows’ blood of milk fat and other milk constituents' by W Richards Graham, T S G Jones and Herbert Davenport KayJanuary 1936
RR/72/5Referee's report by Herbert Davenport Kay, on a paper 'A study of the component glycerides of cow and buffalo milk fats with reference to the possible mechanism of their production during lactation' by K T Achaya and Thomas Percy Hilditch1949
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