John H. Humphrey

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John Herbert Humphrey CBE FRS[1] FRCP (16 December 1915 – 25 December 1987) was a British bacteriologist and immunologist.[2]

Educated at Winchester School, and Trinity College, Cambridge. There he met his wife Janet, the daughter of Nobel-prize winning physiologist Archibald Hill. They had five children, including Nicholas Humphrey, and brought up Humphrey's nephew and niece after the death of Humphrey's brother.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1963.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Askonas, B. A. (1990). "John Herbert Humphrey. 16 December 1915-25 December 1987". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 36: 274–226. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1990.0033.  edit
  2. ^ Natvig, J. B. (1988). "John H. Humphrey 1915-1987". Scandinavian Journal of Immunology 27 (6): 617–619. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3083.1988.tb02391.x. PMID 3293191.  edit



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