| Authorised form of name | Mourant; Arthur Ernest (1904 - 1994) |
| Dates | 1904 - 1994 |
| Place of birth | Jersey, Channel Islands |
| Date of birth | 11/04/1904 |
| Date of death | 29/08/1994 |
| Activity | Education:
Victoria College, Jersey; Exeter College, Oxford (graduated in Chemistry). DPhil (1931, Geology); St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, London (1939). BM, BCh (1943)
Career:
Research on the geology of the Channel Islands; Demonstrator in Geology, Leeds University (1928); mapped coal measures in Lancashire for the Geological Survey of Great Britain (1929-1931); returned to Jersey and established the Jersey Chemical Pathology Laboratory (1933-1938); Medical Officer, National Blood Transfusion Service (1944); Medical Officer, Galton Laboratory Serum Unit (1945); Director, Medical Research Council (MRC) Blood Group Reference Laboratory, Lister Institute, University of London (1946-1965); Honorary Advisor, Nuffield Blood Group Centre (1952); retired (1965); Head, MRC Serological Population Genetics Laboratory (1965); Laboratory closed (1976); retired to Jersey; honorary citizen of the city of Toulouse, France (1985)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 17/03/1966 |
| Age at election | 61 |
| Source | AssocMaterial:
NCUACS 85/6/99. Papers deposited at the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1999 vol 45 pp 329-348, plate, by Gary P Misson, A Clive Bishop and Winifred M Watkins |
| Code | NA6336 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| GLB/65/110/37 | Brown to A E Mourant, Serological Population Genetics Laboratory, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London | 25 June 1970 |
| IM/003203 | Mourant, Arthur Ernest | nd |
| IM/003200 | Mourant, Arthur Ernest | circa 1960 |
| GLB/49/4/24 | A E Mourant, Medical Research Council External Staff, Serological Population Genetics Laboratory to Brown | 3 November 1970 |
| IM/003202 | Mourant, Arthur Ernest | nd |
| IM/003201 | Mourant, Arthur Ernest | 1984 |
| MS/3/9 | 'Hinshelwood' notebook of Arthur Mourant | Early 1920s |
| MS/3 | Notebooks from lectures attended by Dr Arthur Mourant FRS | 1920s |
| MS/3/10 | 'Gas Reactions. Mr Hinshelwood. Trinity Term 1924' notebook of Arthur Mourant | 1924 |
| MS/3/12 | 'Photochemistry. Mr Bowen. Hilary term 1924 (?)' notebook of Arthur Mourant | 1924 |
| MS/3/13 | 'Sidgwick' notebook of Arthur Mourant, [1920s] | Early 1920s |
| MS/3/4 | 'Heterocyclic Compounds. Dr Plant. 1923-24' notebook of Arthur Mourant | 1923-1924 |
| MS/3/5 | 'Heterogeneous Equilibrium. Mr Sidgwick. Hil[ary] & Trinity Terms, 1924' notebook of Arthur Mourant | 1924 |
| MS/3/1 | 'Physical chemistry. Prof[essor] Soddy. Chiefly Michaelmas Term 1922' notebook of Arthur Mourant | 1922 |
| MS/3/7 | 'General Organic Chemistry. Prof[essor] Perkin. 1923-24' notebook of Arthur Mourant | 1923-1924 |
| MS/3/11 | 'Thermodynamics. Mr Hinshelwood. Mic[haelmas] 1922. Hil[ary] 1923' notebook of Arthur Mourant | 1922-1923 |
| MS/3/8 | 'Spectroscopy. Prof[essor] Merton. Mich[aelmas] term. 1923' notebook of Arthur Mourant | 1923 |
| MS/3/6 | 'Hartley' notebook of Arthur Mourant, [1920s] | Early 1920s |
| MS/3/2 | 'Elementary Organic Chemistry. Dr Plant. 1922-3' notebook of Arthur Mourant | 1922-1923 |
| MS/3/3 | 'Rate of reaction. Mr Bowen. Michaelmas Term 1922. 1st half of course' notebook of Arthur Mourant | 1922 |
| GLB/49/4/25 | Brown to A E Mourant, Medical Research Council External Staff, Serological Population Genetics Laboratory | 6 November 1970 |
| EC/1966/22 | Mourant, Arthur Ernest: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |