John Henry Gaddum ( 1900 - 1965 )

Birth: Hale, Cheshire (31 March 1900) Death: 30 June 1965 Research Field; Physiology, pharmacology Education: Miss Wallace's Day School, Bowdon, Cheshire; Moorland House School, Heswall, Cheshire; Rugby School; Trinity College Cambridge; University College Hospital, London Career: Wellcome Research Laboratories (1925-1927); National Institute for Medical Research, Hampstead (1927-1934); Chair of Pharmacology at the University of Cairo (1934-1935); Professor of Pharmacology at University College London (1935-1938); Chair of Pharmacology at College of the Pharmaceutical Society, London (1938); Chemical Defence Research Station, Porton Down (1939-1942); Chair of Materia Medica at University of Edinburgh (1942-1958); Director of Institute of Animal Physiology in Babraham, Cambridge (1958-1965); member of Medical Reseerch Council (1948-1951); corresponding member of the Societe Philomathique de Paris; honorary member of the Italian and Argentine Pharmacological Societies; member of the New York Acodemy of Sciences, and of the Deutsche Akademie fur Naturforschung; Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; Honarary LL.