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Martin Smellie
Robert Martin Stuart Smellie FRSE FIB (1927–1988) was a 20th-century Scottish biochemist and first Cathcart Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Glasgow. The university's Smellie Prize is named after him. Life He was born in Rothesay on 1 April 1927, the son of Rev William Thomas Smellie, the local minister, and his wife, Jean Craig. He was educated at the High School of Dundee and Glasgow Academy. He graduated B.Sc from the University of St Andrews in 1947 but was then asked to serve two years National Service. During this period he was commissioned into the Royal Scots Fusiliers and with the Chemical Defence Establishment at Porton Down, where he worked on nerve gases. In 1949 he became assistant to Professor Norman Davidson at the University of Glasgow. In 1964 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Norman Davidson, Robert Garry, Hamish Munro Hamish Nisbet Munro FRSE (1915–1994) was a Scottish biochemist and exp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FRSE
Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This society received a royal charter in 1783, allowing for its expansion. Elections Around 50 new fellows are elected each year in March. there are around 1,650 Fellows, including 71 Honorary Fellows and 76 Corresponding Fellows. Fellows are entitled to use the post-nominal letters FRSE, Honorary Fellows HonFRSE, and Corresponding Fellows CorrFRSE. Disciplines The Fellowship is split into four broad sectors, covering the full range of physical and life sciences, arts, humanities, social sciences, education, professions, industry, business and public life. A: Life Sciences * A1: Biomedical and Cognitive Sciences * A2: Clinical Sciences * A3: Organismal and Environmental Biology * A4: Cell and Molecular Biology B: Physical, Engineering and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Garry
Robert Campbell Garry (1933) OBE FRSE (1900–1993) was a British physician and Professor of Medicine at the University of St Andrews and the University of Glasgow. During World War II, as an expert on human physiology, he advised on human tolerance of extreme weather conditions and forces, as experienced by high altitude pilots. Life Garry was born in Glasgow on 21 April 1900 the son of Mary Campbell and Robert Garry, both from the north-east of Scotland. His father was a biologist who was Head of Science at Glasgow High School for Girls. He was educated at Queens Park School in Glasgow. In 1917, he went to the University of Glasgow to study medicine, graduating with an MBChB in 1922. While working at the Western Infirmary in Glasgow, he was one of the first clinicians to apply the newly isolated compound, insulin, to a diabetic patient in Scotland. In 1933, he took a role as Head of Physiology working with John Boyd Orr at the University of Aberdeen. In the autumn of 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academics Of The University Of Glasgow
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Alumni Of The University Of St Andrews
Alumni (singular: alumnus (masculine) or alumna (feminine)) are former students of a school, college, or university who have either attended or graduated in some fashion from the institution. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for groups of women. The word is Latin and means "one who is being (or has been) nourished". The term is not synonymous with "graduate"; one can be an alumnus without graduating ( Burt Reynolds, alumnus but not graduate of Florida State, is an example). The term is sometimes used to refer to a former employee or member of an organization, contributor, or inmate. Etymology The Latin noun ''alumnus'' means "foster son" or "pupil". It is derived from PIE ''*h₂el-'' (grow, nourish), and it is a variant of the Latin verb ''alere'' "to nourish".Merriam-Webster: alumnus .. Separate, but from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People Educated At The Glasgow Academy
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People Educated At The High School Of Dundee
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1988 Deaths
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1927 Births
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Michael Stoker
Sir Michael George Parke Stoker CBE FRS FRSE MD FRCP (4 July 1918 – 13 August 2013) was a British physician and medical researcher in virology. Scientific career Stoker studied medicine at Clare College, Cambridge and St Thomas' Hospital in London, gaining his MD in 1947, after serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War II. On return to civilian life he became a Fellow of Clare College from 1948 and an assistant tutor and director of medical studies from 1949 to 1958. Between 1953 and 1956, he researched the structure of ''Coxiella burnetii'', the bacteria causing Q fever, with Paul Fiset. Stoker moved to Glasgow University in 1958. There he was the first professor of virology at the university (the first chair of virology to be established at a British university) from 1958 to 1968 and was appointed honorary director of the Medical Research Council Unit in 1959. He was the director of Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories from 1968 to 1979 and pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamish Munro
Hamish Nisbet Munro FRSE (1915–1994) was a Scottish biochemist and expert in protein metabolism at Glasgow University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served as president of the American Institute of Nutrition in 1978, and was first director of thUSDA Human Nutrition Research Centre on Ageingat Tufts University. Life Munro was born in Edinburgh on 3 July 1915, the son of a bank clerk. He was educated first at George Watson's College. However, in 1923 his father was transferred to manage the Bank of Scotland branch in the small village of Bonar Bridge in Sutherland, close to his family home in Dornoch. Hamish was then educated in the one-room village school. In 1932 he was Dux (top pupil) of the county of Sutherland. Wishing to study medicine but needing qualifications which could not be provided in his village school he crammed physics and chemistry alone and passed the university entrance examination, but as medicine was oversubscribed, he first studied for a Bache ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Norman Davidson
James Norman Davidson CBE PRSE FRS (5 March 1911 – 11 September 1972) was a British biochemist, pioneer molecular biologist and textbook author. The Davidson Building at the University of Glasgow is named for him. Life He was the only child of Wilhelmina Ibberson Foote and James Davidson FRSE FSA (1873-1956) a lawyer, Treasurer of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and originally from Aberdeenshire. He was born in Edinburgh on 5 March 1911 and lived in the family home of 30 Bruntsfield Gardens in the south of the city. He was educated locally, at George Watson's College, where he was dux.Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Norman Davidson He then studied Medicine and Organic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh graduating with a BSc in 1934, MB ChB in 1937, MD in 1939 and a DSc in 1945. The topic of his DSc thesis was biochemical investigations on cellular proliferation. In 1937/38 he studied under Otto Heinrich Warburg in Berlin-Dahlem. He returne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Glasgow
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