Walter Thomas James Morgan CBE. 5 October 1900 – 10 February 2003
| Autor: | Kenneth D. Bagshawe, Winifred M. Watkins |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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| Zdroj: | Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 51:291-302 |
| ISSN: | 1748-8494 0080-4606 |
| DOI: | 10.1098/rsbm.2005.0018 |
| Popis: | Walter Morgan's long and distinguished career followed modest beginnings in Islington, where he was born the second child of Walter Morgan and Anne Edith Morgan ( née James). To his children he recalled the street gas lamp lighters and the ‘knockers–up’ who tapped on workers’ bedroom windows with a long pole before alarm clocks were generally used. In some autobiographical notes he recalled his paternal grandfather who was a ‘Tipstaff’ for the Royal Courts of Justice and whose job was to take into custody nobility and persons ‘illustrious by rank’ when ordered to do so by a Judge of the High Court. On his maternal side an uncle became a chemist specializing in oils and fats who eventually spent most of his life in Borneo, where he discovered a vegetable poison that resulted in the development of the insecticide pyrethrum. |
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