| Authorised form of name | Hanson; Emmeline Jean (1919 - 1973); biophysicist and zoologist |
| Dates | 1919 - 1973 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Newhall, Derbyshire, England |
| Date of birth | 14 November 1919 |
| Place of death | Her home, 50 Southwood Park, Southwood Lawn Road, London, England |
| Date of death | 10 August 1973 |
| Occupation | Biophysicist and zoologist |
| Research field | Zoology |
| Biophysics |
| Musculature |
| Activity | Education:
High School for Girls, Burton-upon-Trent (1930-1938); Bedford College, London (1941, Zoology); Kings College, London
Career:
Research work on vascular system of annelids; Bedford College evacuated to Cambridge (World War 2); Demonstrator in Zoology, Bedford College, London (1944-1948); Founder-member of the Biophysics Research Unit, King's College London (set up by the Medical research Council); developed her interest in muscle (from 1948); Biology Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (1953-1954) where she collaborated with Hugh Esmor Huxley; returned to Biophysics Research Unit (1954); Professor of Biology, University of London (1966); Director, Muscle Biophysics Unit, King's College, London (1970); contracted a rare brain infection and died within hours. |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 16/03/1967 |
| Age at election | 47 |
| Proposer | Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins |
| Alan Lloyd Hodgkin |
| Peter Brian Medawar |
| Hugh Esmor Huxley |
| Vincent Brian Wigglesworth |
| John William Sutton Pringle |
| Honor Bridget Fell |
| John Zachary Young |
| James Eric Smith |
| Harold Munro Fox |
| John Turton Randall |
| Relationships | Parents: Thomas Hanson and Emma Jane Badger, daughter of Superintendent of Police, Derbyshire, both school teachers. |
| PublishedWorks | RCN R79318
RCN R79319
RCN R79320
RCN R79312
RCN R79314
RCN R79315 |
| OtherInfo | Distinguished for her work on the structure of muscles in relation to the mechanism of contraction (sliding filament theory) and studies of polychaete annelids, especially of their blood circulatory systems. |
| 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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| Source | Sources:
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AssocMaterial:
CSAC 51/5/77. Papers deposited in King's College Library, London
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1975 vol 21 pp 313-344, plate, by Sir John Randall |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/3759048 |
| Code | NA7780 |