| Authorised form of name | Brown; Sir; George Lindor (1903 - 1971); physiologist |
| Other forms of name | Lindor |
| Dates | 1903 - 1971 |
| Date of birth | 09/02/1903 |
| Date of death | 22/02/1971 |
| Research field | Physiology |
| Activity | Education:
B.Sc.Hons (Physiology) 1924, MSc. 1925 MB, Ch.B. Manch 1928, Manchester University;
Career:
Lecturer in Physiology, Leeds University 1928-1934; member of scientific staff of National Institute for Medical Research 1934-1939; Jodrell Professor of Physiology, University College London 1949-1960; Waynflete Professor of Physiology and Fellow of Magdalen College, University of Oxford, 1960-1967; Principal of Hertford College Oxford, 1967-1971
Bradley Prize Medal in Operative Surgery 1928
Feldberg Prize Lecturer 1961
Honorary doctorates from St Andrews (1958), University of Brazil (1958), Liege (1959), Leicester (1968), and Monash (1969).
Member of Danish and Brazilian Academies of Science; Officer of the Order of the Southern Cross of Brazil (19590
Honorary Secretary of Physiological Society 1941-1949
Honours:
CBE 1947; Kt 1957
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 21/03/1946 |
| Age at election | 43 |
| Royal Society activity | Royal Society roles:
Sec 1955-1963; VP 1956-1963
Lectures:
Croonian 1964 |
| Relationships | Married 1930 Jane Rosamond Lees, daughter of C H Lees, Professor of Physics in London and Vice Principal of Queen Mary College. Had one daughter, Helen (Mrs Aly Uygur) who graduated in medicine; Christopher, an engineer; Stephen, an airline piot; and Humphrey, a biomedical engineer. |
| Sources | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1974 vol 20 pp 41-73, plate, by F C MacIntosh and W D M Paton |
| Royal Society code | NA1877 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| HF/1/17/1/26/7 | Letter from Howard Walter Florey to Lindor Brown, Department of Physiology, Oxford | 14 June 1961 |
| HF/1/17/1/36/39 | Letter from Lindor Brown, Department of Physiology, Oxford to Howard Walter Florey | 22 January 1965 |
| HF/1/19/6/54/17 | Letter from Lindor Brown, Department of Physiology, Oxford to Howard Walter Florey | 16 February 1967 |
| HF/1/17/1/35/44 | Lindor Brown, Department of Physiology, Oxford to H W THompson | 13 February 1965 |
| HF/1/17/4/8/50 | G Lindor Brown, University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford to David Martin, Executive Secretary, Royal Society | 20 June 1962 |
| HF/1/17/1/47/73 | Copy of a letter from Lindor Brown, Department of Physiology, University of Oxford to Harry Melville, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, London | 17 April 1964 |
| HWT/31/16 | Royal Society Scientific Information Committee | April 1967 |
| IM/000604 | Brown, Sir George Lindor | nd |
| HWT/40/13 | Correspondence and papers regarding miscellaneous ICSU business | May 1964 |
| MS/739 | Notes for the Biographical Memoir of George Lindor Brown | |
| HD/25/23 | Photograph of guests at dinner in honour of 90th birthday of Henry Dale | 11 June 1965 |
| RR/55/67 | Referee's report by Alfred Joseph Clark, on a paper 'The pharmacology of ergometrine' by George Lindor Brown and Henry Hallett Dale | September 1935 |
| RR/72/150 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'Is relaxation an active process?' by Archibald Vivian Hill | 1949 |
| 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/72/151 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'Does heat production precede mechanical response in muscular contraction?' by Archibald Vivian Hill | 1949 |
| RR/74/68 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'Experimental investigations on the afferent fibres in muscle nerves' by L G Brock, John Carew Eccles and W Rall | 7 February 1951 |
| IM/GA/WS/2517 | Brown, Sir George Lindor | 1946 |
| HF/1/17/1/26/9 | Letter from Lindor Brown, Department of Physiology, Oxford to Howard Walter Florey | 16 June 1961 |
| IM/GA/WRS/8640 | Brown, Sir George Lindor | c 1960 |
| IM/000603 | Brown, Sir George Lindor | nd |
| RR/71/56 | Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'Fatigue and neuromuscular block in mammalian skeletal muscle' by George Lindor Brown and Benedict Delisle Burns | [1948] |
| EC/1946/03 | Brown, Sir George Lindor: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| GLB | Papers of Sir George Lindor Brown | 1925-1970 |
| IM/000602 | Brown, Sir George Lindor | 1960 |
| HD/25/21 | Presentation album for Henry Dale on his retirement from the National Institute for Medical Research | 30 September 1942 |
| RR/71/57 | Letter from Archibald Vivian Hill, to Edward Salisbury, regarding a paper 'Fatigue and neuromuscular block in mammalian skeletal muscle' by George Lindor Brown and Benedict Delisle Burns | 30 August 1948 |
| RR/78/12 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'The nodes of Ranvier' by A Hess and John Zachary Young | 7 April 1952 |
| RR/80/11 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'Chemical change and mechanical response in stimulated muscle' by Archibald Vivian Hill | 7 March 1953 |
| RR/78/55 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'Synaptic transmission. An analysis of the electrical activity of the lateral geniculate nucleus in the cat following optic nerve stimulation' by Peter Orlebar Bishop | 5 August 1952 |
| RR/78/60 | Letter from George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'Synaptic transmission. An analysis of the electrical activity of the lateral geniculate nucleus in the cat following optic nerve stimulation' by Peter Orlebar Bishop, to D C Martin | 10 February 1953 |
| RR/78/59 | Letter from D C Martin, on a paper 'Synaptic transmission. An analysis of the electrical activity of the lateral geniculate nucleus in the cat following optic nerve stimulation' by Peter Orlebar Bishop, to George Lindor Brown | 23 January 1953 |
| RR/80/42 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'The ionic fluxes in frog muscle' by Richard Darwin Keynes | 5 November 1953 |
| RR/74/1 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'The series elastic component of muscle' by Archibald Vivian Hill | [1950] |
| RR/74/2 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'The development of the active state of muscle during the latent period' by Archibald Vivian Hill | 28 February 1950 |
| RR/74/17 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'A note on the heat activation in a muscle twitch' by Archibald Vivian Hill | [1950] |
| RR/74/70 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'Repetitive monosynaptic activation of motoneurones' by John Carew Eccles and W Rall | 12 February 1951 |
| RR/76/7 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'The effect of series compliance on the tension developed in a muscle twitch' by Archibald Vivian Hill | 13 February 1951 |
| RR/76/8 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'The transition from rest to full activity in muscle: the velocity of shortening' by Archibald Vivian Hill | 13 February 1951 |
| RR/76/9 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'The earliest manifestation of the mechanical response of striated muscle' by Archibald Vivian Hill | 13 February 1951 |
| RR/76/10 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'The influence of temperature on the tension developed in an isometric twitch' by Archibald Vivian Hill | 13 February 1951 |
| RR/76/33 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'The absorption of work by a muscle stretched during a single twitch or a short tetanus' by B C Abbot, X M Aubert and Archibald Vivian Hill | 14 May 1951 |
| RR/76/34 | Referee's report by George Lindor Brown, on a paper 'Changes of energy in a muscle during very slow stretches' by B C Abbott and X M Aubert | 14 May 1951 |