Evans, Charles Lovatt, 1884-1968

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Evans was born in Birmingham in 1884. He was a pupil and collaborator of E.H. Starling, with whom he worked at University College, London, 1911-1916, and at the Royal Army Medical College at Millbank, 1916-1918, where Starling was in charge of the Anti-gas Department. After a brief stay at Leeds University as Professor of Experimental Physiology, he returned to London to work in the department of H.H. Dale at the newly established National Institute for Medical Research, 1919-1922. He was Professor of Physiology at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, London, 1923-1926, and Jodrell Professor of Physiology, University College, London, 1926-1949. During the Second World War he worked at the Chemical Defence Experimental Station at Porton Down, Wiltshire and on retirement from the Jodrell Chair he was given research facilities at Porton. He died in 1968. He was elected FRS in 1925 and knighted in 1951.

From the guide to the Papers of: Evans, Sir Charles Arthur Lovatt (1884-1968), 1896-1967, (Wellcome Library)

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referencedIn Evans Notebooks, 1903-1947 University College London
referencedIn William B. Provine collection of evolutionary biology reprints, 20th century. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
creatorOf Papers of: Evans, Sir Charles Arthur Lovatt (1884-1968), 1896-1967 Wellcome Library
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Birth 1884-07-08

Death 1968-08-29

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