Person Fell; Dame; Honor Bridget (1900 - 1986); cell biologist Fell Honor Bridget Dame cell biologist 1900 - 1986 British Female Fowthorpe, near Filey, Yorkshire, England 22/05/1900 19000522 Cambridge, England 22/04/1986 19860422

Cambridge (1947)

cell biologist Physiology Zoology Organ culture Cell biology 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 Parents: Colonel William Edwin Fell, soldier, landowner and farmer, and Alice Pickersgill-Cunliffe, carpenter and architect. Siblings: Six sisters and two brothers. 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 Fellow 20/03/1952 51 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 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 Fell H B, GA WS 4348.jpg ©Godfrey Argent Studio 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 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.1987.0009 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Fell%2C+Honor+Bridget RCN 1657 https://pictures.royalsociety.org/results?mi_search_type=adv&mi_adv_search=yes&adv_person_id=AUTH2863 https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-14153 22 May 1900 - 22 Apr 1986 The past Fellows entries are under continuous revision. If you have queries or additional information to contribute, please contact Library@royalsociety.org. Content in external sources is not controlled by the Royal Society and historical sources may include content that is now unacceptable. Reviewed on 18/12/2024 as part of the Name Authority Project update. NA7972 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 08/09/2025 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/31531052 a2fb19b6-3348-4492-9ba8-4351dbab2065