Cecil Edwin Hall
Cecil Edwin Hall (born July 5, 1912 in Nottingham , England, † March 5, 1991 in Jasper ) was a British-American biophysicist and professor of biophysics .
He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Alberta in Canada in 1935 and his Masters degree from the University of Toronto in 1936 . Here he built an electron microscope for Eastman-Kodak . In 1941 he went to MIT as a research assistant and became a member of the Faculty of Biology. With Francis Otto Schmitt he continued to work on the electron microscope. During the Second World War he, Schmitt and Irwin W. Sizer († 2000) examined particles in the skin of explosion victims.
In 1947 he earned his PhD and became an associate professor of biophysics. In the 1950s he published Introduction to Electron Microscopy and Visualization of Individual Macromolecules with the Electron Microscope . Hall was also a consultant to RCA from 1954 to 1968. In 1960 he worked in a team that provided the first images of antibody molecules.
In 1963 Hall was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1964 he became full professor and in 1970 he retired and lived for a while in Lincoln (Massachusetts) .
Individual evidence
- ^ The Tech: Irwin W. Sizer
- ^ Cecil E. Hall: Visualization of Individual Macromolecules with the Electron Microscope ; In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , Vol. 42, No. 11 (Nov. 15, 1956), pp. 801–806, PMC 528343 (free full text)
- ^ Peter W. Hawkes: Advances in electronics and electron physics, Volume 73 ; P. 151
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| SURNAME | Hall, Cecil Edwin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British-American biophysicist and professor of biophysics |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nottingham , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 5, 1991 |
| Place of death | Jasper |