Francis John Worsley Roughton ( 1899 - 1972 )

Birth: Kettering, Northamptonshire, England (06 June 1899) Death: Cambridge (29 April 1972) Education: Winchester College; Trinity College, Cambridge Career: Suffered from parozysmal tachycardia, so unable to serve in World War I and advised against career in medicine; Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1923); Lecturer in Biochemistry, Cambridge (1923-1927); University Lecturer in Physiology, Cambridge (1927-1947); Rockefeller travelling Fellow, USA (1929); research on the effects of carbon monoxide, Harvard Fatigue Laboratory (1940); returned to Cambridge (end of World War II); John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Colloidal Science, Cambridge (1947-1967); Head, Department of Colloidal Science Membership: Fellow Election Date: 7/05/1936.