Institutions Bangor University Name Francis Brambell | Died June 6, 1970 Institution Bangor University | |
Native name Francis William Rogers Brambell Born 25 February 1901 ( 1901-02-25 ) Notable awards Fellow of the Royal Society
Royal Medal (1964) | ||
Francis William Rogers Brambell (25 February 1901 – 6 June 1970) was a British medical scientist.
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Education
Brambell was born in Sandycove, Dublin and was educated (1911–1914) at Aravon School and then privately, specializing in zoology.
Career
Brambell was appointed Lloyd Roberts Professor and Head of the Department of Zoology at Bangor University in 1930 at age 29 years. From that time until his retirement 38 years later, he brought great distinction to his Department and College. He was the father of the field of transmission of immunity. As part of his quantitative and temporal studies on transmission, he defined the first Fc receptor system for IgG, and furthermore recognized the link between transmission of passive immunity from mother to young and protection from catabolism via IgG.
Brambell wrote Antibodies and Embryos with W. A. Hemmings and M. Henderson in 1951.
Brambell was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March, 1949 and won their Royal Medal in 1964 "In recognition of his important contribution to our understanding of the passage of protein from maternal to foetal circulations".
Personal life
He died on 6 June 1970. He had married Margaret L. Adgie in 1927.