Roderic Alfred Gregory

Roderic Alfred Gregory CBE FRS[1] (29 December 1913 – 5 September 1990) was a British biologist.

He was born in 1913 in Plaistow, London, the only child of Alfred Gregory and Alice Jane (née Greaves) Gregory. His father was a fitter and turner who, in 1913, was employed by Brunner and Monde (later Imperial Chemical Industries).[1] At the age of 11 he started at the local grammar school, George Green's School.[1]

He then trained as a physiologist in the Department of Physiology at University College, London in the early 1930s and then studied gastrointestinal physiology for a PhD at North-Western University, Illinois. He turned his attention to gastrin while he was Holt Professor of Physiology, and Head of Department, at the University of Liverpool (appointed in 1948). He "made fundamental contributions to the study of gut hormones through his isolation of the gastric acid stimulating hormone gastrin, the characterisation of its spectrum of actions, the identification of structure-activity relationships and discovery that gastrin was produced in excess in the tumours of patients with Zollinger-Ellison syndrome".[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1965[1] and awarded a CBE in 1971. He won the Royal Medal in 1978.[12]

He had married Alice Watts in 1939.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Dockray, G. J. (1998). "Roderic Alfred Gregory, C. B. E.. 29 December 1913-5 September 1990". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 44: 207–216. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1998.0014. JSTOR 770240.
  2. ↑ http://www.regpep-society.com/Rod-Gregory.html
  3. ↑ Dockray, G. J.; Gregory, R. A. (1980). "Does the C-terminal tetrapeptide of gastrin and CCK exist as an entity?". Nature 286 (5774): 742. doi:10.1038/286742b0. PMID 7412863.
  4. ↑ Dockray, G. J.; Gregory, R. A.; Hutchison, J. B.; Harris, J. I.; Runswick, M. J. (1978). "Isolation, structure and biological activity of two cholecystokinin octapeptides from sheep brain". Nature 274 (5672): 711–713. doi:10.1038/274711a0. PMID 79141.
  5. ↑ Agarwal, K. L.; Beacham, J.; Bentley, P. H.; Gregory, R. A.; Kenner, G. W.; Sheppard, R. C.; Tracy, H. J. (1968). "Isolation, structure and synthesis of ovine and bovine gastrins". Nature 219 (5154): 614–615. doi:10.1038/219614a0. PMID 5665711.
  6. ↑ Beacham, J.; Bentley, P. H.; Gregory, R. A.; Kenner, G. W.; MacLeod, J. K.; Sheppard, R. C. (1966). "Synthesis of human gastrin I". Nature 209 (5023): 585–586. doi:10.1038/209585a0. PMID 5921184.
  7. ↑ Gregory, R. A.; Tracy, H. J.; Grossman, M. I. (1966). "Isolation of two gastrins from human antral mucosa". Nature 209 (5023): 583. doi:10.1038/209583a0. PMID 5921182.
  8. ↑ Morley, J. S.; Tracy, H. J.; Gregory, R. A. (1965). "Structure-function relationships in the active C-terminal tetrapeptide sequence of gastrin". Nature 207 (5004): 1356–1359. doi:10.1038/2071356a0. PMID 5886035.
  9. ↑ Tracy, H. J.; Gregory, R. A. (1964). "Physiological Properties of a Series of Synthetic Peptides Structurally Related to Gastrin I". Nature 204 (4962): 935–938. doi:10.1038/204935a0. PMID 14248713.
  10. ↑ Anderson, J. C.; Barton, M. A.; Gregory, R. A.; Hardy, P. M.; Kenner, G. W.; MacLeod, J. K.; Preston, J.; Sheppard, R. C.; Morley, J. S. (1964). "Synthesis of Gastrin". Nature 204 (4962): 933–934. doi:10.1038/204933a0. PMID 14248712.
  11. ↑ Gregory, R. A. (1946). "Authenticity of scientific anecdotes". Nature 157 (3984): 305. doi:10.1038/157305b0. PMID 21017938.
  12. ↑ "Royal Medal". Retrieved 2008-12-06.


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