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Chain, Professor Sir Ernst Boris

Biographical and Personal

Career, honours and awards

Card from A. Szent-Györgyi, recommending Chain

Letter from A. McKenzie, 22 August 1932

Letter from H. Lieb re proposed participation by Chain in lecture course at Graz, October 1933

References for Chain from P. Rona, March 1933

Two draft letters by Chain

Letter from Rockefeller Institute advising Chain to apply to Rockefeller Foundation for a fellowship, 21 April 1933

Letter from R.N. Salaman, 29 April 1933 advising application to Joint Foreign Committee for financial help,

Correspondence, 1933, re arrangements for Chain to work in the Sir William Dunn Institute, Cambridge

Correspondence, 1933-1935, with Jewish Refugees Committee and with the Liberal Jewish Synagogue re financial help for Chain

Shorter personal and scientific correspondence re early days in Britain, 1933-1935

Birth Certificate, Berlin

School reports

'Fest-Zeitung', humorous journal for end of term

German naturalisation certificate

Miscellaneous passes and identity cards

Chain's passport

German exit pass to London

Chain's Doctorate in absentia from Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat, Berlin, May 1933

"Arische und nichtarische Mathematik".

Correspondence with the Academic Assistance Council and the Home Office

Brief correspondence re award of Ph.D., Cambridge,  June 1935

Two letters, 1935, re Chain's work on snake venom

Personal correspondence, 1935.

Correspondence, 1935, re Chain's move to Oxford

Correspondence re visa for Frances, 1937, 1938

Shorter correspondence re grants for Chain's research from British Empire Cancer Campaign, etc., 1938

Shorter correspondence re support for Chain's mother, 1938-1939

Miscellaneous items of biographical interest, invitations, shorter personal correspondence, 1930s

Chain's British Aliens Registrations card

Certificate of proficiency, British Red Cross Society

Certificate of Naturalization, issued 18 April 1939, and preliminary correspondence

F.S.S.U. Agreement on appointment of Departmental Demonstrator, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford, 20 February 1940

Brief correspondence , 1943 and 1945 re Chain's salary

Letter re conferment of M.A by decree, Oxford, 1945 and letter re Honorary Membership, Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, 1945

Visit to America, July-November 1945

The Nobel Prize

Ms draft letter (addressee unknown) re possibility of developing penicillin research at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Visit to Palestine

Menu of dinner given in honour of the penicillin team at Magdalen College, Oxford, 13 March 1946 and signed by participants

Award of Hon. Doctorate, University of Bordeaux, 1947

Nomination as Commandor de la Legion d'Honneur, 1948

Letter from H.W. Florey accepting Chain's resignation from the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford to work in Rome, 26 September 1949

Election to Fellowship of Royal Society, 1949

Nomination as Foreign Corresponding Member, Istituto Lombardo, 1950

Election as Foreign Corresponding Member, Académie Nationale de Médicine, Paris, 1952

Accademia Nazionale dei XL, 1953

Paul Ehrlich Prize 1954

Hon. Doctorate, Università degli Studi di Torino 1954

Letter from Comunità Israelitica di Roma re Chain's religious faith, 1955

Hon. Fellowship, National Institute of sciences of India, 1955

Hon. Membership, Central Committee of the Microbiological Society of Israel, 1955

Election as Corresponding Member, Accademia Medica di Roma, 1955

Award of Gold Medal in Therapeutics of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London, 1957

Consigliere, Sezione Laziale, Società Italiana per lo Studio della Malattie Infettive, 1957

Conferment of Medal of the City of Paris, 1957

Hon. Membership, Société Française de Microbiologie, 1959

Hon. Doctorate, Université de Paris, 1959

Hon. Membership, Finnish Biochemical Society, 1959

Election as Associé Étranger, Académie des Sciences, Institut de France, 1962

Election to Fellowship of Royal Society of Arts, 1963

Membership of Medical Advisory Committee, Hektoen Institute for Medical Research, Chicago, 1963

Election as Fellow Member, World Academy of Art and Science, 1963

Shorter correspondence with Imperial College, mainly 1965, re Chain's flat, but includes letter, 1967, reappointing him to Chair of Biochemistry to 30 September 1973, and brief correspondence on his retirement

Hon. Doctorate, University of Chicago, 1965

Election Hon. Life Member, New York Academy of Sciences, 1966

Award of Carl Neuberg Medal and of Hon. Doctorate, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, 1967

Knighthood, 1969

Election to Freedom by Redemption of Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London, 1969

Honorary Membership of Council, Società Italian di Scienza Farmaceutiche, 1969

Election as Associé Étranger, Académie Nationale de Médecine, Paris, 1969

The Mark Twain Society

The Athenaeum

Award of Hanbury medal, May 1972

Award of Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold of the Federal Republic of Austria, and Hon. Membership of Gesellschaft der Wiener Ärzte, 1973

Conferment of title 'Emeritus Professor Biochemistry', University of London, 1973

Chain's 70th birthday, 1976

Place list for lunch at Windsor Castle on occasion of visit of President of Israel, E. Katzir, June 1976

Foreign membership, USSR Academy of Sciences, 1977

Correspondence re celebration of 50th Anniversary of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford, 1977

Correspondence re Fellowship of the Zoological Society of London, 1978

Corresponding Member, Academia de Ciencas Médicas, Argentina, 1978

Freedom of City of London, April 1979

Material relating to Chain's arrival and arrangements to work in Britain

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