| Authorised form of name | Pringle; John William Sutton (1912 - 1982) |
| Dates | 1912 - 1982 |
| Nationality | British |
| Date of birth | 22/07/1912 |
| Date of death | 02/11/1982 |
| Activity | Education:
Winchester College; King's College, Cambridge
Career:
Research at Cambridge (from 1934); University Demonstrator in Zoology (1937-1938); Fellow, King's College, Cambridge (1938-1944); worked on airborne radar at the Telecommunications Research Establishment, then at the Ministry of Transport (World War II); Lecturer, Department of Zoology, Cambridge; Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge; Reader in Experimental Cytology (1959); Linacre Professor of Zoology, Oxford University (1960); had a new laboratory built for the departments of Zoology and Experimental Psychology, and the subdepartment of Molecular Biophysics; established his own ARC unit for research in muscle biophysics and insect physiology (c 1970); involved in the development of science in the Third World, especially in East Africa; retired (1979)
Honours:
MBE 1945
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 18/03/1954 |
| Age at election | 41 |
| RSActivity | Lectures:
Croonian 1977 |
| Source | AssocMaterial:
CSAC 117/8/86, NCUACS 21/6/90. Papers deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1983 vol 29 pp 525-551, plate, by Sir Vincent Wigglesworth |
| Code | NA1816 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/003680 | Pringle, John William Sutton | nd |
| EC/1954/18 | Pringle, John William Sutton: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| GLB/65/90 | Professor J W S Pringle | May 1962 - May 1966 |
| CMB/281/36 | Notes on papers passed for publication in the Proceedings | 1961 |
| IM/GA/WS/4632 | Pringle, John William Sutton | c 1954 |
| RR/71/239 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'The gyroscopic mechanism of the halteres of Diptera' by John William Sutton Pringle | 1948 |
| RR/71/240 | Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'The gyroscopic mechanism of the halteres of Diptera' by John William Sutton Pringle | 1948 |
| RR/71/241 | Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'The gyroscopic mechanism of the halteres of Diptera' by John William Sutton Pringle | 1948 |
| IM/003679 | Pringle, John William Sutton | June 1977 |