Rosalind Pitt-Rivers

Rosalind Pitt-Rivers
Born
Rosalind Venetia Henley

(1907-03-04)4 March 1907
London, England
Died14 January 1990(1990-01-14) (aged 82)[2]
Hinton St Mary, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, England
Alma materBedford College
Spouse
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(m. 1931; div. 1937)​
AwardsFRS (1954)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry
InstitutionsNational Institute for Medical Research

Rosalind Venetia Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers FRS[1] (née Henley; 4 March 1907 – 14 January 1990) was a British biochemist.[2] She became the second president of the European Thyroid Association in 1971; she succeeded Jean Roche and was followed by Jack Gross in this position, all three names inextricably linked with the discovery of the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine (T3).[3]

  1. ^ a b Tata, J. R. (1994). "Rosalind Pitt-Rivers 4 March 1907 – 14 January 1990". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 39: 326. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1994.0019.
  2. ^ a b "Rivers, Rosalind Venetia Lane Fox Pitt- (1907–1990)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/57570. Retrieved 19 October 2012. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ "Milestones in European Thyroidology".