| Authorised form of name | Bulbring; Edith (1903 - 1990) |
| Dates | 1903 - 1990 |
| Nationality | German |
| Place of birth | Bonn, Germany |
| Date of birth | 27/12/1903 |
| Place of death | John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford |
| Date of death | 04/07/1990 |
| Occupation | Pharmacologist |
| Research field | Physiology |
| Musculature |
| Activity | Education:
Klosterman Lyzeum, Bonn; private tuition; Bonn Gymnasium (1922); Bonn University (medicine); Munich; Freiburg (qualified 1928)
Career:
House Physician (1 year), then Research Assistant to Paul Trendelenburg, pharmacologist (2 years), Berlin; Paediatrician, Jena, Germany (1931); Infectious Diesease Unit, , Virchow Krankenhaus, Berlin (1932); dismissed because she was half-Jewish and returned to Bonn (1933); visited a sister and friend in England and was offered a post at a biological standardization laboratory being set up by J H Burn for the Pharmaceutical Society, London; Departmental Demonstrator, Oxford University (1937); University Demonstrator and lecturer, Department of Pharmacology, Oxford (1946); naturalized British (1948); 'ad hominem' Reader (1960); Professorial Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall (1960); 'ad hominem' Professor, Oxford (1967); published 'Smooth muscle' (1970); organized a discussion meeting at the Royal Society on vertebrate smooth muscle physiology (1972), jointly with Dorothy Needham (FRS 1948); had one leg amputated below the knee due to atherosclerosis (when in her 70s); died after an attempted venous graft which caused multiple emboli |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/03/1958 |
| Age at election | 54 |
| Relationships | Daughter of Daniel Bulbring, Professor of English, Bonn University, and his wife Hortense Leonore Kann, Dutch daughter of a Jewish banker of The Hague; unmarried |
| Source | Sources:
DNB
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1992 vol 38 pp 67-95, plate, by T B Bolton and A F Brading
References:
Royal Society Council Minutes vol. 24 (1970-1973), p. 360
Alan W Cuthbert ' A brief history of the British Pharmacological Soviety' , BJP [British Pharmacological Sciety] Volume 147 ((S1), January 2006 |
| Code | NA5965 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| GLB/65/12/11 | Edith Bulbring, University of Oxford Department of Pharmacology to Brown | 9 August 1967 |
| HWT/25/10/2 | Correspondence and papers regarding visit of Royal Society delegation to China | November - December 1973 |
| EC/1958/07 | Bulbring, Edith: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| GLB/19/1/31 | Edith [Bulbring], Department of Pharmacology, Oxford to Brown | 3 February 1960 |
| IM/GA/WRS/8307 | Bulbring, Edith | c 1959 |