Honor Bridget Fell
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Dame Honor Bridget Fell (born May 22, 1900 in Fowthorpe , Yorkshire , † April 22, 1986 ) was a British biologist , cell biologist and immunologist .
She is considered the founder of organ cultures that were obtained from the embryos of animals. This made laboratory experiments and tests of drugs possible on living, differentiated body cells.
Fell attended Madras College in St Andrews and studied from 1918 zoology at the University of Edinburgh , graduating in 1922. The director of the Institute for Animal Husbandry in Edinburgh sent her to the laboratory of Thomas Strangeways in Cambridge to learn to work with cell cultures. In 1923 she got a job there, received her Ph.D. in 1924 and she also received a D.Sc. Cambridge University. In 1927 she became director of the Strangeways Laboratory. Even after her retirement, she continued researching there until shortly before her death. In 1955 she became a Fellow of Girton College , Cambridge and in 1963 she received a Royal Society Research Professorship.
At the Strangeways Laboratory, she primarily examined the role of the immune system in rheumatoid arthritis . Her laboratory also played a pioneering role in studying the effects of X-rays on living cells. In 1938 the Rockefeller Foundation funded an extension.
In 1963 she became Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE). In 1965 she received the Prix Charles-Léopold Mayer and she was an honorary doctor in Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh and Leiden.
She was a Fellow of the Royal Society (1953) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1957).
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- Biography ( Memento from March 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
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| SURNAME | Fell, Honor Bridget |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British biologist, cell biologist and immunologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fowthorpe , Yorkshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 1986 |