James Francis Tait

James Francis Tait (1926-2014) was an English physicist and endocrinologist. He worked with his wife, Sylvia Agnes Sophia Tait from 1948 until her death in 2003,[1] a partnership described by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as "one of the most successful examples of husband-wife collaboration."[2] Together, they discovered and identified the hormone aldosterone.

  1. ^ Derek A Denton; I MacIntyre (1 December 2006). "Sylvia Agnes Sophia Tait". Biographical Memoirs of the Royal Society. 52. The Royal Society publishing: 379–399.
  2. ^ "Sylvia Tait". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 11 April 2016.