Roderic Alfred Gregory
Roderic Alfred Gregory
(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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