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Authorised form of nameGye; William Ewart (1884 - 1952)
Dates1884 - 1952
Date of birth11 August 1884
Date of death13 or 14 October 1952
ActivityCareer:
Director of the Laboratories of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election17/03/1938
RelationshipsOriginally Bullock, but took his first wife's maiden name (1919)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1952-1953 vol 8 pp 419-430, plate, by C H Andrewes
Notes:
ON gives death date as 14 October 1952
CodeNA7895
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/GA/WS/1299Gye, William Ewartnd
RR/67/12Letter from William Ewart Gye, on a paper 'The production of cancer by pure hydrocarbons. V' by G M Badger, James Wilfred Cook, C L Hewett, Ernest Laurence Kennaway, N M Kennaway, R H Martin and A M Robinson to J C Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society30 September 1940
RR/68/211Referee's report by William Ewart Gye, on a paper 'The production of cancer by pure hydrocarbons. VI' by G M Badger, James Wilfred Cook, C L Hewett, Ernest Laurence Kennaway, N M Kennaway and R H Martin[1942]
RR/68/440Letter from William Ewart Gye, regarding a paper 'Mitotic activity in the adult female mouse, Mus musculus L. A study of its relation to the oestrous cycle in normal and abnormal conditions' by W S Bullough6 July 1944
RR/67/11Referee's report by William Ewart Gye, on a paper 'The production of cancer by pure hydrocarbons. V' by G M Badger, James Wilfred Cook, C L Hewett, Ernest Laurence Kennaway, N M Kennaway, R H Martin and A M RobinsonSeptember 1940
EC/1938/07Gye, William Ewart: certificate of election to the Royal Society
HD/25/21Presentation album for Henry Dale on his retirement from the National Institute for Medical Research 30 September 1942
RR/67/391Referee's report by William Ewart Gye, on a paper 'Evidence of resistance to tumour growth in the offspring of immunized rats' by Sidney Russ and G M ScottMay 1939
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