Brigitte Askonas

Brigitte Askonas
FRS FMedSci
Born
Brigitte Alice Askonas

(1923-04-01)1 April 1923
Vienna, Austria
Died9 January 2013(2013-01-09) (aged 89)
Alma materMcGill University (BSc, MSc)
University of Cambridge (PhD)
AwardsRobert Koch Prize (2007)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2007)[1]
Scientific career
InstitutionsJohn Radcliffe Hospital
University of Cambridge
Harvard Medical School[2]
Imperial College London
McGill University
National Institute for Medical Research
ThesisThe separation of enzymes by means of organic solvents at low temperatures: application to aqueous rabbit-muscle extract with a study of creatine-phosphokinase (1952)
Doctoral advisorMalcolm Dixon[3]
Doctoral studentsMichael J. Bevan
Andrew McMichael[4]
Alain Townsend[5]

Brigitte Alice Askonas FRS FMedSci (1 April 1923 – 9 January 2013)[4] was a British immunologist[6] and a visiting professor at Imperial College London from 1995.[2][7][8]

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  2. ^ a b Anon (2013). "Askonas, Brigitte Alice (Ita)". Who's Who & Who Was Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U5882. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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  4. ^ a b McMichael, Andrew J.; Ogilvie, Bridget M. (2018). "Brigitte Alice Askonas. 1 April 1923—9 January 2013". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 65: 31–45. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2018.0007. ISSN 0080-4606. S2CID 81086759.
  5. ^ Townsend, Alain Robert Michael (1984). Recognition of influenza virus specific cytotoxic T cell clones. london.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of London. OCLC 941030873. Copac 34553445.
  6. ^ "Lists of Royal Society Fellows 1660–2007". London, UK: The Royal Society. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
  7. ^ "Imperial College London - 2000 Fellows of Imperial College". Retrieved 16 March 2016.
  8. ^ O'Garra, Anne (2013). "Brigitte Askonas (1923–2013)". Nature. 494 (7435): 37. Bibcode:2013Natur.494...37O. doi:10.1038/494037a. PMID 23389536.