Person Phillips; David Chilton (1924 - 1999); Baron Phillips of Ellesmere Phillips David Chilton 1924 - 1999 Male Ellesmere, Shropshire, England 07/03/1924 19240307 23/02/1999 19990223

Education: Church of England infants and elementary schools, Ellesmere; High School for Boys, Oswestry; University College, Cardiff. Graduated (1944, wartime degree; 1948 1st class Hons, Physics) Career: Royal Navy Radar Officer (World War II); demobilised (1947); research in X-ray crystallography (1948); National Research Laboratories, Ottawa, Canada: Post-doctoral Fellow, Crystallography Laboratory (1951-1953), Research Staff (1953-1955); invited at the suggestion of Dorothy Hodgkin (FRS 1947) to join Research Staff, Royal Institution; Professor of Molecular Biophysics, Oxford (1966); Member, Medical Research Council (MRC) (1974-1978); founder Chairman, Cell Biology and Disorders Board (1974-1976); Royal Society assessor on MRC (1978-1983); Chairman, Advisory Board for the Research Councils (1983-1993); resigned Chair (1990), after which it received an endowment and was renamed the David Phillips Professorship of Molecular Biophysics; non-executive director, Celltech (1982); Trustee, Wolfson Foundation (1988); editor, 'Biochemistry'; member, Davy-Faraday Laboratory Committee, Royal Institution, London; non-executive Chairman, Finsbury Communications Honours: Kt 1979; KBE 1989; Baron 1994 Son of Charles Harry Phillips, master tailor and Methodist local preacher, and his wife Edith Harriet midwife and church organist, daughter of Samuel Finney MP; middle name was the maiden name of his mother's great grandmother; married (1960) Diana Kathleen Hutchinson, W L Bragg's secretary; one daughter Royal Society roles: Council: 1969-1970, 1971-1973, 1976-1983; VP 1972-1973, 1976-1983; Sec 1976-1983 Medals and prizes: Royal Medal 1975 Lectures: UK-Canada Rutherford 1990 Fellow 16/03/1967 43 AssocMaterial: NCUACS 45/1/94. Papers deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2000 vol 46 pp 377-401, plate, by L N Johnson References: D Blow and S Wallwork, 'Prehistory of the British Crystallographic Association' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 177-186 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 7 Mar 1924 - 23 Feb 1999 NA3606 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/46844361 46d51e54-fd36-45de-b80d-3711640ae37e