Thomas Snow Beck

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Thomas Snow Beck c. 1852

Thomas Snow Beck

Robert Lee, who had published an earlier paper on the subject and reached different conclusions. This controversy led to reform of the award process for the Royal Medal, and is thought to have contributed to the resignation of both the President and Secretary of the Royal Society. Beck also carried out other work on nerves, including work in 1846 on differentiation between white and gray rami. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society
in 1851.

Sources

  • Entry for Beck in the Royal Society's Library and Archive catalogue's details of Fellows (accessed 21 April 2008)
  • Haws, C; Krouse, M. E.; Xia, Y; Gruenert, D. C.; Wine, J. J. (1992). "CFTR channels in immortalized human airway cells". The American Journal of Physiology. 263 (6 Pt 1): L692–707.
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