| Authorised form of name | Fell; Dame; Honor Bridget (1900 - 1986); cell biologist |
| Dates | 1900 - 1986 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Fowthorpe, near Filey, Yorkshire, England |
| Date of birth | 22/05/1900 |
| Place of death | Cambridge, England |
| Date of death | 22/04/1986 |
| Occupation | cell biologist |
| Research field | Physiology |
| Zoology |
| 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, Division of Immunology, Department of Pathology (1970-1979); returned to Strangeways Laboratory (1979-1986); Senior Biological Advisor to the Medical Research Council biophysics unit, King's College, London.
Honours:
DBE 1963
Awards/Medals:
Junior Beit Fellow 1924
4th-year Beit Fellow 1927
Senior Beit Fellow 1928 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/03/1952 |
| Age at election | 51 |
| Proposer | Reginald Ruggles Gates |
| Conrad Hal Waddington |
| Redcliffe Nathan Salaman |
| John Burdon Sanderson Haldane |
| Juda HirschQuastel |
| Rudolph Albert Peters |
| John Turton Randall |
| Henry Hallett Dale |
| Harold Munro Fox |
| Kenneth Manley Smith |
| Eric Keightley Rideal |
| John Zachary Young |
| Archibald Vivian Hill |
| Gavin Rylands de Beer |
| Carl Frederick Abel Pantin |
| James Gray |
| David Keilin |
| Relationships | Parents: Colonel William Edwin Fell, soldier, landowner and farmer, and Alice Pickersgill-Cunliffe, carpenter and architect.
Siblings: Six sisters and two brothers. |
| Published works | RCN 1657 |
| General context | Distinguished for her research on the development and differentiation of tissues and rudiments of organs in vitro.
Other work of distinction includes the studies of the effect of X-rays upon tissues, cytological study of Jensen's rat sarcoma in cultures, micromanipulation applied to tissue cultures, the mechanism of wound healing in relation to phosphatase, the life cycle of avian tubercle bacilli and their interrelationship with animal cells in vitro |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
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| 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 |