Ernest Basil Verney
British pharmacologist and physiologist
About Ernest Basil Verney
Lived 1894 – 1967 (aged 72). Ernest Basil Verney was a British pharmacologist and university teacher.
Ernest Basil Verney FRS (22 August 1894 – 19 August 1967) was a British pharmacologist.
He was born in Cardiff, Wales and attended Tonbridge School and Cambridge University, where he was awarded MA and MB.
He was Sheilds Reader in Pharmacology, University of Cambridge and Professor of Pharmacology at the University of London. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and delivered their Goulstonian Lecture on Polyuria in 1929.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1936,
He gave the Croonian Lecture to the society in 1947 entitled "The antidiuretic hormone and the factors which determine its release""
He died in Cambridge in 1967. He had married Ruth Conway in 1923.
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British pharmacologist and physiologist (1894–1967)
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Ernest Basil Verney was born on 22 August 1894 in Cardiff.
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Ernest Basil Verney died on 19 August 1967 in Cambridge.
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