ROUGHTON, Francis John Worsley (Jack)

  General Notes:

Roughton, Francis John Worsley (1899-1972) . Biochemist, physiologist
Papers, ca. 1920s-1960s. ca. 90,000 items. (90 ln. ft.).

This collection of correspondence and documents focuses on Roughton's prolific life's work on respiratory physiology. His specific work at Cambridge University from the 1920s to the 1960s, as well as interludes in the U. S. during World War II, are covered, as is the scientific milieu in which he worked. Some of the subjects or organizations for which there are documents, are: Bermuda and Naples Zoological Research Stations; British Glue and Gelatin Research Assoc.; Biochemical Journal; Cambridge Philosophical Society; Cambridge University Departments of Physiology (pre-1939) and Colloid Science (post-1940); Harvard Fatique Lab.; Medical research Council; Trinity College Cambridge. There is also material on the following individuals, among others:

Joseph Bancroft
Britton Chance
John T. Edsall
J. B. S. Haldane
William Harvey
Lawrence J. Henderson
Archibald V. Hill
Frederick G. Hopkins
Hans A. Krebs
Joseph Needham
Linus Pauling
Max F. Perutz
Ernest Rutherford
P. F. Scholander
Jefferies Wyman

Also described in Lily Kay, Molecules, Cells, and Life
Presented by Dr. Alice Roughton, 1975
(B/R755

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: biochemist and physiologist.

Francis married Alice HOPKINSON, daughter of Bertram HOPKINSON and Mariana SIEMENS. (Alice HOPKINSON was born on 21 Jan 1905 and died on 16 Jun 1995.)