Rosalind Pitt-Rivers

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Rosalind Pitt-Rivers
Born
Rosalind Venetia Henley

(1907-03-04)4 March 1907
London, England
Died14 January 1990(1990-01-14) (aged 82)
Bedford College
SpouseGeorge Pitt-Rivers
AwardsFRS (1954)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry
InstitutionsNational Institute for Medical Research

Rosalind Venetia Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers FRS[1] (née Henley; 4 March 1907 – 14 January 1990) was a British biochemist.[2] She became the second president of the European Thyroid Association in 1971; she succeeded Jean Roche and was followed by Jack Gross in this position, all three names inextricably linked with the discovery of the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine (T3).[3]

Early life and education

Pitt-Rivers was born Rosalind Venetia Henley on 4 March 1907 at 18 Mansfield Street, London, the eldest of four daughters of the Hon. Anthony Morton Henley, a Captain in the 5th Lancers, and his wife the Hon. Sylvia Laura Stanley.[2] Her father was the third son of Anthony Henley, 3rd Baron Henley[4] and her mother the daughter of Lord Stanley of Alderley.[2]

She was educated at home and later at

first class honours and an MSc in 1931.[2][5]

Personal life

In 1931, she married, as his second wife,

Julian. She gave birth to a son, Anthony Pitt-Rivers, in 1932, but the marriage was dissolved in 1937.[2][5][7]

During their marriage, her husband had become increasingly pro-eugenics and antisemitic, drawing closer to German eugenicists and praising Mussolini and Hitler; by 1940 he was interned under Defence Regulation 18B.[8]

Career

After she separated from Pitt-Rivers in 1937, she returned to study and gained a PhD in biochemistry from University College medical school in 1939.[9]

She joined the scientific staff of the

Medical Research Council (MRC).[1] She later became head of the Division of Chemistry, and retired in 1972.[10]

After working with

Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1954.[1] In 1973 she was made a fellow of Bedford College, London, in 1983 an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and in 1986 an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.[2]

Her publications with

Jamshed Tata include The Thyroid Hormones (1959); The Chemistry of Thyroid Diseases (1960); and (with W. R. Trotter) The Thyroid Gland (1964).[2][12]

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1098/rsbm.1994.0019
    .
  2. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/57570. Retrieved 19 October 2012. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  3. ^ "Milestones in European Thyroidology".
  4. ISBN 2-940085-02-1
    .
  5. ^
    ISBN 978-1-57607-090-1
    . Rosalind Pitt-Rivers.
  6. ^ MacKellar, F. Landis (29 April 2014). "Captain George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers and the origins of the IUSSPF". princeton.edu.
  7. ^ Hart 2015, pp. 71, 176.
  8. ^ Hart 2015, p. 153.
  9. ^ "PITT-RIVERS, Dr Rosalind Venetia". Who Was Who. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  10. ISBN 0102355738.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link
    )
  11. PMID 14898765
    .
  12. OCLC 216724374
    – via WorldCat.
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