| Authorised form of name | Fell; Dame; Honor Bridget (1900 - 1986) |
| Dates | 1900 - 1986 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Fowthorpe, near Filey, Yorkshire, England |
| Date of birth | 22/05/1900 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |
| Date of death | 22/04/1986 |
| Research field | Organ culture |
| Cell biology |
| Activity | Education:
Wychwood School, Oxford; Madras College, St Andrews; Edinburgh University. BSc (1923, Zoology), PhD (1924), DSc (1932)
Career:
Scientific Assistant to T S P Strangeways, Cambridge (1923); held several Research Fellowships at Cambridge; Director, Cambridge Research Hospital (1929-1970) which she renamed Strangeways Research Laboratory in honour of its founder; Fullerton Research Fellow of the Royal Society (1947); Fellow of Girton College (1955); Royal Society Research Professor (1963); Honorary Fellow, Somerville College, Oxford (1964); Life Fellow, King's College, London (1967); worked with R R A Coombs in the Division of Immunology, Department of Pathology, Cambridge University; Life Fellow, Girton College (1970); Research worker, Strangeways Laboratory (1979); Senior Biological Advisor to the Medical Research Council biophysics unit, King's College, London
Honours:
DBE 1963
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/03/1952 |
| Age at election | 51 |
| Relationships | Daughter of Colonel William Edwin Fell, soldier, landowner and farmer, and his wife Alice Pickersgill-Cunliffe, carpenter and architect; unmarried |
| Sources | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1987 vol 33 pp 235-259, plate, by Dame Janet Vaughan
References:
Joan Mason, 'The Women Fellows' Jubilee' in NR 1995 vol 49 pp 125-140 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/31531052 |
| Royal Society code | NA7972 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| CMB/278/73 | Papers passed for publication in the Proceedings | 17 October 1956 |
| RR/47/49 | Referee's report by Arthur Edwin Boycott, on a paper 'Chondrogenesis in cultures of endosteum' by Honor Bridget Fell | 9 January 1933 |
| RR/53/67 | Referee's report by Arthur Keith, on a paper 'Experiments on the development in vitro of the avian knee-joint' by Honor Bridget Fell and R G Canti | nd [August 1934] |
| RR/55/124 | Referee's report by James Thomas Wilson, on a paper 'Experiments on skeletal growth and development in vitro in relation to the problem of avian phokomelia' by Honor Bridget Fell and Walter Landauer | March 1935 |
| RR/65/83 | Referee's report by James Peter Hill, on a paper 'The origin and developmental mechanics of the avian sternum' by Honor Bridget Fell | July 1938 |
| RR/65/82 | Referee's report by John Graham Kerr, on a paper 'The origin and developmental mechanics of the avian sternum' by Honor Bridget Fell | 27 July 1938 |
| NLB/72/221 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr Honor [Bridget] Fell; Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge | 27 May 1929 |
| NLB/68/654 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, KCMG, FRS | 2 October 1925 |
| IM/GA/WS/4348 | Fell, Dame Honor Bridget | nd |
| IM/001382 | Visit to the Institute of Animal Genetics | nd |
| RR/45/24 | Referee's report by James Alexander Murray, on a paper 'Micro-operations on cells in tissue cultures' by Robert Chambers and Honor Bridget Fell | [August 1931] |
| NLB/72/873 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr Honor [Bridget] Fell; Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge | 10 June 1930 |
| NLB/68/742 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Thomas Strangeways Pigg] Strangeways Esq. | 28 October 1925 |
| RR/65/84 | Referee's report by Alan Nigel Drury, on a paper 'The histology and self-differentiating capacity of the abnormal cartilage in a new lethal mutation in the rat (Rattus norvegicus)' by Honor Bridget Fell and Hans Grüneberg | January 1939 |
| EC/1952/06 | Fell, Dame Honor Bridget: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/69/4 | Referee's report by Honor Bridget Fell and Frederick Gordon Spear, on a paper 'Effects on embryonic development of X-irradiation of rabbit spermatozoa in vitro' by Emmanuel Ciprian Amoroso and Alan Sterling Parkes | 1945 |
| RR/33/116 | Referee's report by Henry Hallett Dale, on a paper 'Experimental studies on the differentiation of embryonic tissues growing in vivo and in vitro.—I. The development of the undifferentiated limb-bud (a) when subcutaneously grafted into the post-embryonic chick and (b) when cultivated in vitro' by T S P Strangeways and Honor Bridget Fell | October 1925 |
| RR/33/117 | Referee's report by James Alexander Murray, on a paper 'Experimental studies on the differentiation of embryonic tissues growing in vivo and in vitro.—I. The development of the undifferentiated limb-bud (a) when subcutaneously grafted into the post-embryonic chick and (b) when cultivated in vitro' by T S P Strangeways and Honor Bridget Fell | 14 December 1925 |
| RR/34/108 | Referee's report by James Alexander Murray, on a paper 'Experimental studies on the differentiation of embryonic tissues growing in vivo and in vitro.—I. The development of the undifferentiated limb-bud (a) when subcutaneously grafted into the post-embryonic chick and (b) when cultivated in vitro' by T S P Strangeways and Honor Bridget Fell | 2 June 1926 |
| RR/78/70 | Referee's report by Honor Bridget Fell, on a paper 'A study of the branched cells of the mammalian epidermis with special reference to the fate of their division products' by Rupert Everett Billingham and Peter Brian Medawar | 10 November 1952 |
| RR/78/79 | Referee's report by Honor Bridget Fell, on a paper 'Studies on the problem of corneal homografts' by Rupert Everett Billingham and Thelma Boswell | 16 December 1952 |