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Chain, Professor Sir Ernst Boris
Biographical and Personal PP/EBC/A
Career, honours and awards PP/EBC/A.7-A.174
Career, honours and awards
Date:
1906-1979
Reference:
PP/EBC/A.7-A.174
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Chain, Professor Sir Ernst Boris
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Chain, Professor Sir Ernst Boris
PP/EBC
Biographical and Personal
PP/EBC/A
Career, honours and awards
PP/EBC/A.7-A.174
Birth Certificate, Berlin
PP/EBC/A.7
School reports
PP/EBC/A.8
'Fest-Zeitung', humorous journal for end of term
PP/EBC/A.9
German naturalisation certificate
PP/EBC/A.10
Miscellaneous passes and identity cards
PP/EBC/A.11
Chain's passport
PP/EBC/A.12
German exit pass to London
PP/EBC/A.13
Chain's Doctorate in absentia from Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat, Berlin, May 1933
PP/EBC/A.14
Material relating to Chain's arrival and arrangements to work in Britain
PP/EBC/A.15-A.24
"Arische und nichtarische Mathematik".
PP/EBC/A.25
Correspondence with the Academic Assistance Council and the Home Office
PP/EBC/A.26
Brief correspondence re award of Ph.D., Cambridge, June 1935
PP/EBC/A.27
Two letters, 1935, re Chain's work on snake venom
PP/EBC/A.28
Personal correspondence, 1935.
PP/EBC/A.29
Correspondence, 1935, re Chain's move to Oxford
PP/EBC/A.30
Correspondence re visa for Frances, 1937, 1938
PP/EBC/A.31
Shorter correspondence re grants for Chain's research from British Empire Cancer Campaign, etc., 1938
PP/EBC/A.32
Shorter correspondence re support for Chain's mother, 1938-1939
PP/EBC/A.33
Miscellaneous items of biographical interest, invitations, shorter personal correspondence, 1930s
PP/EBC/A.34
Chain's British Aliens Registrations card
PP/EBC/A.35
Certificate of proficiency, British Red Cross Society
PP/EBC/A.36
Certificate of Naturalization, issued 18 April 1939, and preliminary correspondence
PP/EBC/A.37
F.S.S.U. Agreement on appointment of Departmental Demonstrator, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford, 20 February 1940
PP/EBC/A.38
Brief correspondence , 1943 and 1945 re Chain's salary
PP/EBC/A.39
Letter re conferment of M.A by decree, Oxford, 1945 and letter re Honorary Membership, Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, 1945
PP/EBC/A.40
Visit to America, July-November 1945
PP/EBC/A.41-A.55
The Nobel Prize
PP/EBC/A.56-A.77
Ms draft letter (addressee unknown) re possibility of developing penicillin research at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
PP/EBC/A.78
Visit to Palestine
PP/EBC/A.79-A.80
Menu of dinner given in honour of the penicillin team at Magdalen College, Oxford, 13 March 1946 and signed by participants
PP/EBC/A.81
Award of Hon. Doctorate, University of Bordeaux, 1947
PP/EBC/A.82
Nomination as Commandor de la Legion d'Honneur, 1948
PP/EBC/A.83
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
PP/EBC/A.84
Election to Fellowship of Royal Society, 1949
PP/EBC/A.85-A.86
Nomination as Foreign Corresponding Member, Istituto Lombardo, 1950
PP/EBC/A.87
Election as Foreign Corresponding Member, Académie Nationale de Médicine, Paris, 1952
PP/EBC/A.88
Accademia Nazionale dei XL, 1953
PP/EBC/A.89
Paul Ehrlich Prize 1954
PP/EBC/A.90-A.94
Hon. Doctorate, Università degli Studi di Torino 1954
PP/EBC/A.95
Letter from Comunità Israelitica di Roma re Chain's religious faith, 1955
PP/EBC/A.96
Hon. Fellowship, National Institute of sciences of India, 1955
PP/EBC/A.97
Hon. Membership, Central Committee of the Microbiological Society of Israel, 1955
PP/EBC/A.98
Election as Corresponding Member, Accademia Medica di Roma, 1955
PP/EBC/A.99
Award of Gold Medal in Therapeutics of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London, 1957
PP/EBC/A.100
Consigliere, Sezione Laziale, Società Italiana per lo Studio della Malattie Infettive, 1957
PP/EBC/A.101
Conferment of Medal of the City of Paris, 1957
PP/EBC/A.102
Hon. Membership, Société Française de Microbiologie, 1959
PP/EBC/A.103
Hon. Doctorate, Université de Paris, 1959
PP/EBC/A.104
Hon. Membership, Finnish Biochemical Society, 1959
PP/EBC/A.105
Election as Associé Étranger, Académie des Sciences, Institut de France, 1962
PP/EBC/A.106
Election to Fellowship of Royal Society of Arts, 1963
PP/EBC/A.107
Membership of Medical Advisory Committee, Hektoen Institute for Medical Research, Chicago, 1963
PP/EBC/A.108
Election as Fellow Member, World Academy of Art and Science, 1963
PP/EBC/A.109
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
PP/EBC/A.110
Hon. Doctorate, University of Chicago, 1965
PP/EBC/A.111
Election Hon. Life Member, New York Academy of Sciences, 1966
PP/EBC/A.112
Award of Carl Neuberg Medal and of Hon. Doctorate, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, 1967
PP/EBC/A.113
Knighthood, 1969
PP/EBC/A.114-A.146
Election to Freedom by Redemption of Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London, 1969
PP/EBC/A.147
Honorary Membership of Council, Società Italian di Scienza Farmaceutiche, 1969
PP/EBC/A.148
Election as Associé Étranger, Académie Nationale de Médecine, Paris, 1969
PP/EBC/A.149
The Mark Twain Society
PP/EBC/A.150
The Athenaeum
PP/EBC/A.151-A.153
Award of Hanbury medal, May 1972
PP/EBC/A.154
Award of Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold of the Federal Republic of Austria, and Hon. Membership of Gesellschaft der Wiener Ärzte, 1973
PP/EBC/A.155
Conferment of title 'Emeritus Professor Biochemistry', University of London, 1973
PP/EBC/A.156
Chain's 70th birthday, 1976
PP/EBC/A.157-A.168
Place list for lunch at Windsor Castle on occasion of visit of President of Israel, E. Katzir, June 1976
PP/EBC/A.169
Foreign membership, USSR Academy of Sciences, 1977
PP/EBC/A.170
Correspondence re celebration of 50th Anniversary of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford, 1977
PP/EBC/A.171
Correspondence re Fellowship of the Zoological Society of London, 1978
PP/EBC/A.172
Corresponding Member, Academia de Ciencas Médicas, Argentina, 1978
PP/EBC/A.173
Freedom of City of London, April 1979
PP/EBC/A.174
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