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Authorised form of name	Adrian; Edgar Douglas (1889 - 1977); 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge; physiologist
Dates	1889 - 1977
Nationality	British
Date of birth	30 November 1889
Date of death	04/08/1977
Research field	Physiology
Activity	Education: MA; MD (Camb) Career: Lecturer in Physiology, University of Cambridge Medals and prizes: Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) 1932 Honours: OM 1942; Baron 1955
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	03/05/1923
RSActivity	Royal Society roles: For Sec 1946-1950; PRS 1950-1955 Medals and prizes: Royal Medal 1934; Copley Medal 1946 Lectures: Croonian 1931; Ferrier 1938
Relationships	Father of Richard Hume Adrian, 2nd Baron Adrian (FRS 1977)
Source	Sources: Bulloch's Roll Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1979 vol 25 pp 1-73, plate, by Sir Alan Hodgkin References: H G Thornton, 'A Note on the Visit to Russia of the Royal Society Delegation in 1956' in NR 1956-57 vol 12 pp 230-236 Sir Alan Hodgkin, 'Address at the Memorial Service for Lord Adrian, OM, FRS, at Westminster Abbey on 18 October 1977' in NR 1977-8 vol 32 pp 119-121 R V Jones, 'Addendum' in NR 1994 vol 48 p 165 J K Bradley and E M Tansey, 'The Coming of the Electronic Age to the Cambridge Physiological Laboratory: E D Adrian's Valve Amplifier in 1921' in NR 1996 vol 50 pp 217-228, plate
Virtual International Authority File	http://viaf.org/viaf/41833544
Code	NA6618

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
EC/1923/01	Adrian, Edgar Douglas, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MM/18/131	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	15 June 1961
MM/18/105	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	3 February 1938
MM/18/112	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	27 April 1945
MM/18/113	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	13 June 1945
MM/18/136	Letter from Hester A Adrian to Ragnar Granit	25 September 1948
MM/18/135A	Manuscript draft of speech by E D Adrian at the Inaguration of the Medical Nobel Institute	1948
GLB/26/1	E D Adrian	1954
GLB/26/2	E D Adrian	1954
IM/GA/WG/9449	Presidents 1940-1970	nd
MM/18/125	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	26 May 1948
MM/18/99	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	8 December 1934
MM/18/94	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	20 October 1932
MM/18/92	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	15 June 1932
MM/18/93	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	10 October 1932
MM/18/85	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	20 July 1930
MM/18/96	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	23 December 1933
MM/18/122	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	14 February 1948
MM/18/91	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	28 December 1932
MM/18/101	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	20 December 1935
MM/18/102	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	28 December 1936
MM/18/110	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	8 April 1944
MM/18/119	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	6 August 1947
MM/18/120	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	24 December 1947
MM/18/103	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	13 June 1937
MM/18/100	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	4 October 1935
MM/18/129	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	13 November 1952
MM/18/109	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	2 October 1943
MM/18/111	Letter from Ragnar Granit to E D Adrian	9 April 1945
MM/18/127	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	29 November 1949
MM/18/88	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	19 September 1932
MM/18/124	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	13 April 1948
MM/18/121	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	20 January 1948
MM/18/132	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	31 April 1960
MM/18/104	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	14 February 1937
MM/18/118	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	12 January 1947
MM/18/133	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	14 March 1971
MM/18/97	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	12 December 1934
MM/18/90	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	9 November 1932
MM/18/116	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	16 December 1945
MM/18/86	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	21 November 1930
MM/18/130	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	13 August 1953
MM/18/123	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	17 March 1948
MM/18/126	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	19 September 1948
MM/18/107	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	14 October 1942
MM/18/108	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	10 January 1943
MM/18/84	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	4 May 1930
MM/18/89	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	22 September 1932
MM/18/106	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	21 May 1938
MM/18/117	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	7 June 1946
MM/18/134	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	15 June 1972
MM/18/95	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	16 April 1933
MM/18/115	Letter from Ragnar Granit to E D Adrian	13 October 1945
OL/19/3	Letter from E D Adrian, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, to Otto Loewi	1 January 1954
NLB/66/47	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, K.C.M.G FRS	14 February 1924
HB/13/75	Postcard from Professor Adrian, 12 Grange Court, Grange Road, Cambridge, to Henry Barcroft	20 December 1946
MM/18/114	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	14 July 1945
MM/18/128	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	17 July 1951
IM/GA/WS/0	Adrian, Edgar Douglas, 1st Baron Adrian	nd
IM/GA/AR/7007	Adrian, Edgar Douglas, 1st Baron Adrian	nd
PIF/A/14	Personal information file: Edgar Douglas Adrian	1932-1989
MDA/A/16/23	Copy letter from David Christie Martin to Thomas Ralph Merton	9 July 1953
MDA/A/16/65	Report of meeting on United Kingdom and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations	7 June 1956
MDA/A/16/20	Copy letter from David Christie Martin to Thomas Ralph Merton	10 November 1952
MDA/A/16/5	Copy letter from David Christie Martin to Thomas Ralph Merton	31 July 1951
MDA/A/16/7	Copy letter from Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Thomas Ralph Merton	1 November 1951
RR/32/62	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, on a paper 'Fatigue and plurisegmental innervation of individual muscle fibres' by John F Fulton	25 June 1925
RR/35/142	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, on a paper 'The viscous elastic properties of muscle' by A Levin and J Wyman	January 1927
RR/32/66	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, on a paper 'The mechanism of muscular contraction' by William Edward Garner	August 1925
RR/30/50	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'The relation between the durations of the isometric twitch and of the after-action of tetanus' by John Farquhar Fulton	18 November 1924
RR/41/2	Referee's report by Charles Scott Sherrington, on a paper 'The effects of injury on mammalian nerve fibres' by Edgar Douglad Adrian	15 June 1930
RR/39/53	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'The interaction between two trains of impulses converging on the same motoneurone' by Sybil Cooper and D Denny-Brown	[July 1929]
RR/63/77	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, on a paper 'Electrotonus and excitation in nerve' by H Rosenberg	June 1937
NLB/70/245	Copy letter from Henry Hallett Dale, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Edgar Douglas] Adrian, FRS	15 February 1927
RR/53/111	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'Nerve heat production as a physiological response to excitation' by Archibald Vivian Hill	[March 1934]
RR/49/107	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'The rhythm of the heart beat. I—Location, action potential, and electrical excitability of the pacemaker' by John Carew Eccles and H E Hoff	[December 1933]
RR/32/61	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, on a paper 'Electrical responses of extensor muscles during postural (myotatic) contraction' by J F Fulton and Edward George Tandy Liddell	7 August 1925
RR/30/52	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'Some observations upon the electrical responses and shape of the isometric twitch of skeletal muscle (intact)' by John Farquhar Fulton	18 November 1924
RR/63/85	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, on a paper 'The mechanism of the lateral sense organs of fishes' by Alec Sand	May 1937
RR/60/51	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, on a paper 'Hearing in insects: The nature of the response of certain receptors to auditory stimuli' by Richard Julius Pumphrey and A F Rawdon-Smith	May 1936
RR/56/16	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'The strength-duration relation for electric excitation of medullated nerve' by Archibald Vivian Hill	[December 1935]
RR/63/76	Second referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, on a paper 'Electrotonus and excitation in nerve' by H Rosenberg	August 1937
RR/58/11	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, on a paper 'Nerve excitation by alternating current' by Archibald Vivian Hill, B Katz and D Y Solandt	June 1936
RR/54/94	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, on a paper 'Outline of a physio-mathematical theory of the brain' by N Rashevsky	27 January 1934
RR/56/114	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'The measurement of “accommodation” in nerve' by D Y Solandt	[December 1935]
RR/65/227	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, on a paper 'The function of the ampullae of Lorenzini, with some observations on the effect of temperature on sensory rhythms' by Alec Sand	May 1938
NLB/64/546	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Edgar Douglas] Adrian, FRS	02 May 1923
RR/72/139	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, on a paper 'The initiation of nerve impulses by mesenteric Pacinian corpuscles' by John Archibald Browne Gray and J L Malcolm	1949
RR/62/26	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'A comparison of various methods of measuring the time-constant of accommodation of Nerve' by D Y Solandt	[March 1936]
NLB/65/232	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Edgar Douglas] Adrian [Baron Adrian of Cambridge], FRS; Trinity College, Cambridge	25 September 1923
NLB/67/264	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, KCMG, FRS	24 November 1924
NLB/65/456	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Edgar Douglas] Adrian, FRS	2 November 1923
RR/30/83	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'The postural influence of the sympathetic nervous system' by John I Hunter	[January 1924]
NLB/67/259	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, KCMG, FRS	24 November 1924
NLB/65/840	Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Edgar Douglas] Adrian, FRS	17 January 1924
RR/30/51	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'The influence of tension upon the electrical responses of muscle to repetitive stimuli' by John Farquhar Fulton	18 November 1924
NLB/67/214	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, KCMG, FRS	13 November 1924
NLB/67/592	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, KCMG, FRS	26 January 1925
NLB/70/399	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Edgar Douglas] Adrian, FRS	23 March 1927
NLB/69/839	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Edgar Douglas] Adrian, FRS	29 October 1926
NLB/68/567	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, KCMG, FRS	10 August 1925
NLB/70/285	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Edgar Douglas] Adrian, FRS	22 February 1927
NLB/69/920	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Edgar Douglas] Adrian FRS	17 November 1926
NLB/69/840	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; E. F. Knapp Fisher Esq., Chapter Clerks Office, The Sanctuary, Westminster Abbey, SW1	29 October 1926
NLB/70/749	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Edgar Douglas] Adrian, FRS	21 July 1927
NLB/72/39	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Edgar Douglas] Adrian, FRS	25 January 1929
NLB/72/129	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Edgar Douglas] Adrian, FRS	15 April 1929
NLB/73/105	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Edgar Douglas] Adrian, FRS	4 December 1930
NLB/67/287	Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Hugh [Kerr] Anderson, FRS	1 December 1924
GLB/65/22/15	Brown to Lord Adrian, Trinity College, Cambridge	5 August 1955
MM/18/98	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	27 March 1934
MM/18/83	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	20 February 1930
MM/18/137	Letter from Richard Adrian to Ragnar Granit	29 August 1977
MM/18/87	Letter from E D Adrian to Ragnar Granit	27 November 1932
IM/000034	Adrian, Edgar Douglas, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge	nd
IM/000036	Adrian, Edgar Douglas, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge	c 1950
IM/001235	Eccles, Sir John Carew	1957
MDA/A/16/18	Letter from David Chrisite Martin to Thomas Ralph Merton, The Royal Society, Burlington House	22 September 1952
RR/28/52	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'The determination of the factor of the kata-thermometer' by T C Angus	20 November 1923
RR/47/26	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, on a paper 'The rhythmic discharge of motoneurones' by John Carew Eccles and H E Hoff	February 1932
RR/65/3	Referee's report by Hamilton Hartridge, on a paper 'The electrical response of the auditory mechanism in cold-blooded vertebrates' by Edgar Douglas Adrian, K J W Craik and R S Sturdy	May 1938
RR/57/80	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'On the changes in histological structure and electrical response of the cochlea of the cat following section of the VIIIth nerve' by D W Ashcroft, Charles Skinner Hallpike and A F Rawdon-Smith	[October 1936]
RR/64/40	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'On the response of the human ear to audio-frequency electrical stimulation' by Charles Skinner Hallpike and Hamilton Hartridge	[April 1937]
WF/41	Grant application from the Institute of Criminology to the Wolfson Foundation	January 1959- July 2005
NLB/67/637	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, KCMG, FRS	4 February 1925
NLB/65/861	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, KCMG, FRS	18 January 1924
IM/000033	Adrian, Edgar Douglas, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge	nd
IM/000035	Adrian, Edgar Douglas, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge	1955
IM/000030	Adrian, Edgar Douglas, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge	nd
IM/000032	Adrian, Edgar Douglas, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge	March 1964
IM/006417	Group photograph of Officers of the Royal Society 1945-50	c 1945-50
PB/1/33/2	Correspondence concerning the Copley Medal of the Royal Society	1956
MDA/A/16/51	Minutes of the British Committee for Cooperation with UNESCO in the Natural Sciences	16 May 1956
MDA/C/5/1	Correspondence and papers relating to the Curl Trust	1938-1952
RR/49/113	Second referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'The rhythm of the heart beat. III—Disturbances of rhythm produced by early premature beats' by John Carew Eccles and H E Hoff	[April 1934]
IM/000031	Composite photograph of selection of presidents from the 20th centuary	nd
IM/002442	Group Photograph	nd
RR/28/89	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'The significance of an achondroplasia-like condition met with in cattle' by Francis Albert Eley Crew	[May 1923]
RR/59/96	Second referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'Electrical activity of the central nervous system of the frog' by R W Gerard and John Zachary Young	[December 1936]
RR/51/98	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'Some features of the action of the utricular maculæ (and of the associated action of the semicircular canals) of the frog' by John Tait and W J McNally	6 August 1933
RR/51/101	Second referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'Some features of the action of the utricular maculæ (and of the associated action of the semicircular canals) of the frog' by John Tait and W J McNally	[January 1934]
RR/62/43	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'On sensory and motor correlations in the urinary bladder and the urethra' by M Talaat	[March 1936]
MDA/C/10/3	Correspondence of the Gassiot Committee	1947-1953
RR/31/49	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'The problem of treatment of spastic paralysis. An experimental and clinical study' by [Norman] D Royle	[January 1924]
RR/31/64	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'Further observations on myotatic reflexes' by Edward George Tandy Liddell and Charles Scott Sherrington	18 November 1924
RR/32/86	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, on a paper 'Recruitment and some other features of reflex inhibition' by Edward George Tandy Liddell and Charles Scott Sherrington	1 February 1925
RR/41/80	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, on a paper 'A comparative study of the brains in British cyprinoids in relation to their habits of feeding, with special reference to the anatomy of the medulla oblongata' by H Muir Evans	December 1930
RR/49/108	Second referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'The rhythm of the heart beat. I—Location, action potential, and electrical excitability of the pacemaker' by John Carew Eccles and H E Hoff	[April 1934]
RR/49/110	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'The rhythm of the heart beat. II—Disturbance of rhythm produced by late premature beats' by John Carew Eccles and H E Hoff	[December 1933]
RR/49/111	Second referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'The rhythm of the heart beat. II—Disturbance of rhythm produced by late premature beats' by John Carew Eccles and H E Hoff	[April 1934]
RR/49/112	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'The rhythm of the heart beat. III—Disturbances of rhythm produced by early premature beats' by John Carew Eccles and H E Hoff	[December 1933]
RR/53/38	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'The action of potassium and other ions on the injury potential and action current in maia nerve' by S L Cowan	[March 1934]
RR/59/95	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, on a paper 'Electrical activity of the central nervous system of the frog' by R W Gerard and John Zachary Young	4 November 1936
RR/60/15	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, on a paper 'On the electrical responses of the cochlea and the auditory tract of the cat to a phase reversal produced in a continuous musical tone' by Charles Skinner Hallpike, Hamilton Hartridge and A F Rawdon-Smith	October 1936
RR/65/288	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, on a paper 'Fused neurons and synaptic contacts in the giant nerve fibres of cephalopods' by John Zachary Young	November 1938
RR/67/277	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, on a paper 'The mechanism of the semicircular canal. A study of the responses of single-fibre preparations to angular accelerations and to rotation at constant speed' by Otto Egon Löwenstein and Alec Sand	May 1940
RR/71/121	Referee's report by Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, on a paper 'Hearing. I. The cochlea as a frequency analyzer' by Thomas Gold and Richard Julius Pumphrey	24 April 1948
P/0001	Portrait of Adrian, Edgar Douglas; Baron Adrian of Cambridge	1955

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