| Authorised form of name | Abercrombie; Michael (1912 - 1979) |
| Dates | 1912 - 1979 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Ryton, Dymock, Gloucestershire, England |
| Date of birth | 14/08/1912 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |
| Date of death | 28/05/1979 |
| Research field | Biology |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/03/1958 |
| Age at election | 45 |
| RSActivity | Lectures:
Croonian 1978 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1980 vol 26 pp 1-15, plate, by Sir Peter Brian Medawar |
| Code | NA3238 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/000009 | Abercrombie, Michael | nd |
| PIF/A/1 | Personal information file: Michael Abercrombie | 20th century |
| PB/9/1/101/6 | Royal Society correspondence | 1968 |
| HWT/5/13 | Agenda (annotated by Thompson), papers and minutes of meeting held on 1 March 1968 | March 1968 |
| RR/72/4 | Referee's report by John Zachary Young, on a paper 'The influence of nerve fibres on Schwann cell migration investigated in tissue culture' by Michael Abercrombie, M L Johnson and G A Thomas | 1949 |
| RR/72/1 | Referee's report by John Zachary Young, on a paper 'The effects of antero-posterior reversal of lengths of the primitive streak in the chick' by Michael Abercrombie | 7 August 1949 |
| RR/72/3 | Referee's report by Conrad Hal Waddington, on a paper 'The effects of antero-posterior reversal of lengths of the primitive streak in the chick' by Michael Abercrombie | 1949 |
| EC/1958/01 | Abercrombie, Michael: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/72/2 | Letter from Conrad Hal Waddington, on a paper 'The effects of antero-posterior reversal of lengths of the primitive streak in the chick' by Michael Abercrombie to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 18 August 1949 |
| RR/76/20 | Referee's report by Conrad Hal Waddington, on a paper 'The growth of cell population and the properties in tissue culture of regenerating liver of the rat' by Michael Abercrombie and Robert D Harkness | 13 March 1951 |