John H. Humphrey

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John Herbert Humphrey CBE FRS FRCP (16 December 1915 - 25 December 1987) was a British bacertiologist 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 and brought up Humphrey's nephew and niece after the death of Humphrey's borther.

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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