John H. Humphrey

John H. Humphrey

John Herbert Humphrey CBE FRS FRCP (16 December 191525 December 1987) was a British bacteriologist and immunologist.

Educated at Winchester School, and Trinity College, Cambridge. There he met his wife Janet, the daughter of Nobel-prize winning physiologist Archibald Hill. They had five children, including Nicholas Humphrey, and brought up Humphrey's nephew and niece after the death of Humphrey's brother.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1963.

References

* Askonas BA, Biogr Mem Fellows R Soc. 1990;36:275-300
* Natvig JB. Scand J Immunol. 1988 Jun;27(6):617-9.

External links

* http://www.ibch.ru/jhaspi/jhbio.htm


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