Item 48-56 - Papers relating to Lord Adrian's Royal Society memoir of Herbert S. Gasser

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Reference code

Add. MS a/199/48-56

Title

Papers relating to Lord Adrian's Royal Society memoir of Herbert S. Gasser

Date(s)

  • 1956-1964 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

1 folder

Context area

Name of creator

(1889-1977)

Biographical history

Edgar Douglas Adrian was born on 30 November 1889, son of Alfred Douglas Adrian and his wife Flora, née Barton. He was educated at Westminster and admitted to Trinity College in 1908, becoming a Fellow in 1913 after studying Natural Sciences and Medicine.read more

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Gift of the executors of Lord Adrian, 1978.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Research material, draft, proofs, and correspondence with the Royal Society and Mabel Bright of the Rockefeller Institute seeking Gasser's next-of-kin. The printed material consists of an offprint from The Journal of General Physiology, March 20, 1956,read more

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See also the Papers of Lord Adrian.

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