Authorised form of name | Verney; Ernest Basil (1894 - 1967) |
Dates | 1894 - 1967 |
Nationality | British |
Place of birth | Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales |
Date of birth | 22 August 1894 |
Place of death | Cambridge |
Date of death | 19/08/1967 |
Research field | Physiology |
Pharmacology |
Activity | Education: MA, MB (Camb) Career: Sheilds Reader in Pharmacology, University of Cambridge; ex-Professor of Pharmacology, University of London; Goulstonian Lecturer, Royal College of Physicians, 1929 Memberships: FRCP
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 07/05/1936 |
Royal Society activity | Lectures: Croonian 1947 |
Sources | Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DSB vol 18 pp 960-962 Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1970 vol 16 pp 523-542, plate, by I de Burgh Daly and L Mary Pickford References: Claude Debru, 'On the Usefulness of the History of Science for Scientific Education' in NR 1997 vol 51 pp 291-307 |
Royal Society code | NA6860 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference number | Title | Date |
EC/1936/17 | Verney, Ernest Basil: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
CMB/278/72 | Paper passed for publication in Phil. Trans. | 30 May 1956 |
IM/004721 | Verney, Ernest Basil | nd |
MDA/A/22/61 | Letter from Ernest Basil Verney to Albert C Seward, University of Cambridge, Pharmacological Laboratory | 7 June 1939 |
NLB/67/61 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, KCMG, FRS | 14 October 1924 |
NLB/67/21 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, KCMG, FRS | 2 October 1924 |
NLB/72/89 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Ernest Basil] Verney; University College, Gower Street | 25 February 1929 |
MDA/C/26/153 | Application to the Scientific Relief Fund, on behalf of Ernest Basil Verney | 1931 |
RR/46/14 | Referee's report by John Scott Haldane, on two papers 'The absorption and excretion of water by the mammal. Part I.—The relation between absorption of water and its excretion by the innervated and denervated kidney' and 'The absorption and excretion of water by the mammal. Part II.—Factors influencing the response of the kidney to water ingestion' by A Klisiecki, Lillian Mary Pickford, P Rothschild and Ernest Basil Verney | [January 1933] |
RR/31/65 | Referee's report by Arthur Robertson Cushny, on a paper 'The secretion of urine as studied on the isolated kidney' by Ernest Henry Starling and Ernest Basil Verney | [October 1924] |
RR/34/126 | Referee's report by Ernest Henry Starling, on a paper 'The secretion of pituitrin in mammals, as shown by perfusion of the isolated kidney of the dog' by Ernest Basil Verney | [February 1926] |
RR/69/145 | Referee's report by Ernest Basil Verney, on a paper 'The innervation and actions of the neurophypophysis; an investigation using the method of remote-control stimulation' by Geoffrey Wingfield Harris | 1945 |
RR/80/21 | Referee's report by Ernest Basil Verney, on a paper 'Renal function before birth' by Robert Alexander McCance and Elsie May Widdowson | 14 May 1953 |
RR/74/32 | Referee's report by Ernest Basil Verney, on a paper 'The hypothalamic control of vegetative functions I Food intake in rats' by G C Kennedy | 6 June 1950 |