Authorised form of name | Pitt-Rivers; Rosalind Venetia (1907 - 1990) |
Other forms of name | Rosalind Venetia Pitt- |
Other forms of surname | Rivers |
Dates | 1907 - 1990 |
Nationality | British |
Date of birth | 04/03/1907 |
Place of death | Her home, Hinton St Mary, Dorset |
Date of death | 14/01/1990 |
Research field | Thyroid hormones |
Activity | Education: At home, by a governess; Notting Hill High School, London (c 1920-1924); Bedford College, London. BSc (1930, top of the University), MSc (1931), PhD (1939) Career: Research student under Sir Charles Harington, Department of Pathological Chemistry, University College Hospital Medical School, London (1937); studied thyroid hormones; moved with Harington to the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), Hampstead, London (1942); worked at Southe-East Blood Transfusion Unit, Maidstone Kent (1940-1941); worked on milk yields, University College Hospital; seconded to the 21 Army Group, to go to Belgium (1945) and worked with Dame Janet Vaughan (FRS 1979) on nutritional study of force-marched prisoners of war; returned to NIMR (1945); William Julius Mickle Fellow of the University of London (1951); member, Bedford College Coucil (1956); Member of Council, University College Hospital Medical School (1960); President, European Thyroid Association (1971); retired (1972); continued work first in Department of Zoology and then in the Department of Pharmacology, University College, London; Fellow, Bedford College, London (1973); Honorary President, International Congress of Endocrinology, Melbourne (1980); retired (1985) Memberships: Society of Endocrinology, Mexico (1959, Honorary Member); London Thyroid Club (President 1965); Society for Endocrinology (1977, Honorary Member); Royal Society of Medicine (1983, Honorary Fellow); Hon FRCP (1986) |
Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 18/03/1954 |
Age at election | 47 |
Relationships | Eldest daughter of Brigadier-General the Hon Anthony Henry and his wife the Hon Sylvia Stanley; married (1931) George Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers; one son, Anthony; divorced (1937) |
Source | Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1994 vol 39 pp 325-348, plate, by J R Tata |
Code | NA7005 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
IM/003593 | Pitt-Rivers, Rosalind Venetia | September 1985 |
EC/1954/16 | Pitt-Rivers, Rosalind Venetia: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |