Person Tait; James Francis (1925 - 2014) Tait James Francis 1925 - 2014 American Male Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England 01/12/1925 19251201 02/02/2014 20140202

Biomedical science Education: Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Darlington; First class honours degree in physics, Leeds University (1943-1946) Ph.D in 1948 Career: Middlesex Hospitakl Medical School 1948-58. Worcestere Foundation for Experimental Biology (WFEB) in Massachusetts, USA, 1938-1970, having been headhunted by George Pincus, inventor of teh contraceptive pill and director of WFEB Purified and isolated a muilligram of the steroid hormone aldosterone, the major hormone causing salt retention by the body and essentional to life, in 1953 with Sylvia Simpson, later Mrs Tait. Moved to retirement home in Yorkshire after death of Sylvia in 2003. Married to Sylvia Agnes Sophia Tait (nee Simpson) FRS in 1956, first husband and wife team to be elected FRS on the same day Fellow 19/03/1959 33 NCUACS Catalogue 128/1/04 Papers deposited in Archives and Manuscripts Section, Wellcome Library, London International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 1 Dec 1925 - 2 Feb 2014 NA352 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/250603075 e0a5664b-b440-420f-b3c1-05de8ef9d309