Philip Eggleton

Philip Eggleton

Life

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Eggleton was born at

He then received a post at the University of Edinburgh rising to Reader in Biochemistry in the Physiology Department. He also acted as Scientific Advisor to BBC Scotland.

In 1927, in experiments on frog muscles in Cambridge, he discovered the release (on passing an electrical current) of a previously unknown substance which he labelled phosphagen.^[2] It was shown that the substance played a major role in muscular contraction.^{[citation needed]}

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1931. His proposers were Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Alfred Joseph Clark, and Henry Dryerre.

During the

Eggleton died on 7 October 1954, aged 51.[3]

Family

He married Grace Palmer (1901-1970) who worked with him. The two discovered phosphagens.^{[citation needed]}

Publications

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• The Physiological Significance of Phosphagen (1927)
• Further Observations on Phosphagen (1928)
• A Problem in the Random Distribution of Particles (1944) with William Ogilvy Kermack
• The Use of Sodium Sulphate for the Preparation of Concentrated Protein-Free Tissue Extracts

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