| Authorised form of name | Danielli; James Frederic (1911 - 1984); biologist |
| Dates | 1911 - 1984 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | 36 Swinderby Road, Alperton, near Wembley, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 13 November 1911 |
| Place of death | Houston, Texas, United States of America |
| Date of death | 22 April 1984 |
| Occupation | Biologist |
| Research field | Biology |
| Cell biology |
| Activity | Education:
Wembley county school (1928); University College, London; Commonwealth Fund fellowship at Princeton University (1933–5)
Career:
Returned to University College, London, to further research the problems of membrane permeability and function (1935); moved to Cambridge University to work on oedema (1938); participated in defence research on wound healing and antidote to the chemical warfare poison Lewisite (1939-1945); reader in cell physiology at the Royal Cancer Hospital, London (1946); professor of zoology at King's College, London, where he widened the scope of departmental research (1949); chairman of the department of biological pharmacology, University of Buffalo (1962); then director of the university's new interdisciplinary centre for theoretical biology (1965); chairman of life sciences at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts (1974); retired (1980) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 21/03/1957 |
| Age at election | 45 |
| Proposer | Peter Brian Medawar |
| Edward Wilfred Taylor |
| Neil Kensington Adam |
| Reginald Ruggles Gates |
| Honor Bridget Fell |
| Eric Keightley Rideal |
| Thomas Archibald Bennet-Clark |
| Joseph Needham |
| Carl Frederick Abel Pantin |
| Vincent Brian Wigglesworth |
| James Gray |
| John Turton Randall |
| David Keilin |
| Relationships | Parents: James Frederic Danielli, civil servant, and Helena Mary Hollins.
Spouse: (m. 1937) Mary Guy, poet and anthropologist, daughter of Herbert Spencer Guy, accountant.
Children: One daughter and one son. |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 17204
RCN 17205
RCN 17207 |
| OtherInfo | Noted for his his investigation on the structure and permeability of cell membranes and his critical examination and further development of cytochemical methods applied to the study of localisation of alkaline phosphatases in tissues of vertebrates and invertebrates in relation to their secretory activity.
His study of the functional relationship between the nucleus and cytoplasm of cells, carried out by methods of enucleation and cross transfer of nuclei in Amoeba proteus and Amoeba discoides, has direct bearing upon the problem of cell differentiation.
His work on anti-cancer agents was stimulus to others. |
| 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 | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1986 vol 32 pp 115-135, plate, by W D Stein |
| Code | NA1971 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| GLB/65/27/4 | J F Danielli, School of Pharmacy, State University of New York, Buffalo to Brown | 21 October 1963 |
| GLB/65/27/2 | J F Danielli, Department of Zoology, King's College, London to Brown | 21 July 1958 |
| GLB/65/27/1 | Brown to J F Danielli, Department of Zoology, King's College, London | 12 November 1957 |
| GLB/65/27/3 | J F Danielli, Department of Zoology, King's College, London to Brown | 9 November 1961 |
| GLB/65/27/5 | Brown to J F Danielli, School of Pharmacy, State University of New York, Buffalo | 28 October 1963 |
| MM/24/22 | Pamphlet, 'War or Civilisation', edited by James Frederic Danielli | May 1934 |
| MM/24/21 | Letter from James Frederic Danielli, to 'Dear Ned' | c.1933-1935 |
| MM/24/20 | Letter from James Frederic Danielli, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole Massachusetts, to 'Dear Ned' | c.1933-1935 |
| MM/24/19 | Letter from James Frederic Danielli, Kew, to 'Dear Zeus' | 19 September 1932 |
| RR/52/4 | Referee's report by Eric Keightley Rideal, on a paper 'The structure of surface films XXI—Surface potentials of dibasic esters, alcohols, aldoximes, and ketones' by Neil Kensington Adam, James Frederic Danielli and J B Harding | July 1934 |
| EC/1957/07 | Danielli, James Frederic: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/59/37 | Second referee's report by Francis John Worsley Roughton, on a paper 'The relations between surface pH, ion concentrations and interfacial tension' by James Frederic Danielli | 15 October 1936 |
| RR/59/36 | Referee's report by Rudolph Albert Peters, on a paper 'The relations between surface pH, ion concentrations and interfacial tension' by James Frederic Danielli | 18 September 1936 |
| RR/59/35 | Referee's report by Francis John Worsley Roughton, on a paper 'The relations between surface pH, ion concentrations and interfacial tension' by James Frederic Danielli | [August 1936] |
| MDA/N/1/114 | Correspondence between James Frederic Danielli and the Royal Society | 21 March 1957-16 May 1960 |
| DRW/1/1/65 | File of criticism of Wilkie's ideas on biological energetics by Dr. Barbara E. C. Banks, arranged by Douglas Robert Wilkie | 1969-1972 |