John Henry Gaddum
1900 - 1965
- Born
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31/03/1900
Hale, Cheshire
- Died
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30/06/1965
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 22/03/1945
- Age at the time of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 44
- Relationships
- His wife, Iris Mary Harmer, MB, B.Chir., MRCP won first class honours in natural science tripos at Cambridge, and did outstanding clinical research at University College London, under Sir Thomas Lewis. Their joint publications in 1926 and 1927 provided some of the first experimental evidence for the release of histamine-like substances in the human skin in response to injury. Her grandfather, Frederic William Harmer, was a geologist and authority on on Pleicene Mollusca and glacial erratics; proposed for Fellowship to the Royal Society
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Author of
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Referee's report by Charles James Martin, on a paper 'The production of histamine from histidine by ultra-violet light and the absorption spectra of these substances' by R B Bourdillon, John Henry Gaddum and R G C Jenkins
Creator: Charles James Martin Reference number: RR/41/30 -
Referee's report by Frank Horton, on a paper 'A simple method of measuring surface tension' by John Henry Gaddum
Creator: Frank Horton Reference number: RR/43/33