Roderic Alfred Gregory

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Roderic Alfred Gregory

CBE FRS[1]
(29 December 1913 – 5 September 1990) was a British physiologist.

Early life and career

He was born in 1913 in Plaistow, Essex, the only child of Alfred Gregory and Alice Jane (née Greaves) Gregory. His father was a fitter and turner who, in 1913, was employed by Brunner and Mond (later Imperial Chemical Industries).[1] At the age of 11 he started at the local grammar school, George Green's School.[1]

He then trained as a physiologist in the Department of Physiology at

Zollinger-Ellison syndrome".[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Much of the work on gastrin at Liverpool was with his long-term collaborator Hilda Tracy
in the same department.

Awards and recognition

He was elected a

CBE in 1971. He won the Royal Medal in 1978.[12]

Personal life

He married Alice Watts in 1939.[1]

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