| Authorised form of name | Needham; Dorothy Mary Moyle (1896 - 1987) |
| Dates | 1896 - 1987 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | London, England |
| Date of birth | 22 September 1896 |
| Date of death | 22/12/1987 |
| Occupation | Biochemist |
| Research field | Biochemistry |
| Musculature |
| Activity | Education:
Claremont College, Stockport; St Hilary's School, Alderley Edge; Girton College, Cambridge. Natural Science Tripos (Part I, 1918; Part II (Chemistry) 1919), BA and MA (1923); PhD (1926) ScD (1945, Cambridge)
Career:
Reseached aerobic synthesis of glycogen, Food Investigation Board, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, at the Sir William Dunn Institute; Beit Memorial Fellow (1925-1928) and worked with her husband; pioneered the study of adenosinetriphosphate (ATP) in muscle contraction (1930-1940); Chemical Defence Research Group under Malcolm Dixon (FRS 1942) working on the effects of chemical weapons on skin and bone-marrow (1940-1944); in China (1944-1945); Associate Director, Sino-British Co-operation Office; returned to the Sir William Dunn Institute, Cambridge to work on enzyme biochemistry; funded by Medical Research Council grants (to 1952), then by Broodbank Fund, Cambridge University (1952-1955), and ultimately by the Agricultural Research Council; Fellow of Girton College, Fellow and co-founder of Lucy Cavendish College; first woman Fellow of Gonville and Caius College; organized a discussion meeting at the Royal Society on vertebrate smooth muscle physiology, jointly with Edith Bulbring (FRS 1958) (1972) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 18/03/1948 |
| Relationships | Married (1924) Joseph Needham (FRS 1941) |
| Source | AssocMaterial:
NCUACS 22/7/90; NCUACS 37/9/52. Papers deposited in Girton College Library, Cambridge
References:
Joan Mason, 'The Women Fellows' Jubilee' in NR 1995 vol 49 pp 125-140
Royal Society Council Minutes vol. 24 (1970-1973), p. 360
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2003 vol 49 pp 351-366, plate, by Mikulas Teich |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/2791723 |
| Code | NA8000 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/GA/WS/3423 | Needham, Dorothy Mary (Moyle) | nd |
| IM/003239 | Needham, Dorothy Mary (Moyle) | nd |
| IM/003238 | Needham, Dorothy Mary (Moyle) | 1976 |
| RR/50/74 | Referee's report by Arthur Edwin Boycott, on a paper 'Physico-chemical experiments on the amphibian organizer' by Joseph Needham, Conrad Hal Waddington and Dorothy Mary Moyle Needham | November 1933 |
| RR/57/39 | Referee's report by Otto Rosenheim, on a paper 'Studies on the nature of the amphibian organization centre II—Induction by synthetic polycyclic hydrocarbons' by Conrad Hal Waddington and Dorothy Mary Moyle Needham | [January 1935] |
| IM/004387 | Stephenson, Marjory | nd |
| EC/1948/15 | Needham, Dorothy Mary Moyle: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/57/91 | Referee's report by Rudolph Albert Peters, on a paper 'A contribution to the comparative biochemistry of muscular and electrical tissues' by Ernest Baldwin and Dorothy Mary Moyle Needham | [November 1936] |
| IM/003240 | Needham, Dorothy Mary (Moyle) and Needham, Joseph | 1976 |
| IM/GA/WS/3424 | Needham, Dorothy Mary (Moyle) and Needham, Joseph | nd |
| NLB/68/726 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, KCMG, FRS | 22 October 1925 |
| RR/57/38 | Referee's report by James Peter Hill, on a paper 'Studies on the nature of the amphibian organization centre II—Induction by synthetic polycyclic hydrocarbons' by Conrad Hal Waddington and Dorothy Mary Moyle Needham | [January 1935] |
| RR/43/137 | Referee's report by Edwin Stephen Goodrich, on a paper 'A comparative study of the phosphagens, with some remarks on the origin of vertebrates' by Dorothy Mary Moyle Needham, Joseph Needham, Ernest Baldwin and John Yudkin | December 1931 |