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Authorised form of nameHanson; Emmeline Jean (1919 - 1973)
Dates1919 - 1973
NationalityBritish
Place of birthNewhall, Derbyshire, England
Date of birth14/11/1919
Place of deathHer home, London
Date of death10/08/1973
Research fieldBiophysics
Musculature
ActivityEducation:
High School for Girls, Burton-upon-Trent (1930-1938); Bedford College, London (1941, Zoology)
Career:
Research work on vascular system of annelids; Bedford College evacuated to Cambridge (World War 2); Demonstrator in Zoology, Bedford College, London (1944-1948); Founder-member of the Biophysics Research Unit, King's College London (set up by the Medical research Council); developed her interest in muscle (from 1948); Biology Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (1953-1954) where she collaborated with H E Huxley; returned to Biophysics Research Unit (1954); Professor of Biology, University of London (1966); Director, Muscle Biophysics Unit, King's College, London (1970); contracted a rare brain infection and died within hours
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election16/03/1967
Age at election47
RelationshipsDaughter of Thomas Hanson and his wife Emma Jane Badger, daughter of Superintendent of Police, Derbyshire, both school teachers; unmarried
SourceSources:
DNB
AssocMaterial:
CSAC 51/5/77. Papers deposited in King's College Library, London
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1975 vol 21 pp 313-344, plate, by Sir John Randall
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/3759048
CodeNA7780
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/001930Hanson, Emmeline Jeannd
EC/1967/13Hanson, Emmeline Jean: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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