Photograph of an oil painting of Marshall by W.O.Hutchinson
Physische Beschaffenheit
Dr. Francis Hugh Adam Marshall, C.B.E., F.R.S was born at High Wycombe on July 11, 1878. He died suddenly after an operation in a Cambridge nursing home on February 5 1949. He went up to Christ's College, Cambridge in 1896 and took the Natural Sciences Tripos. Inspired by the work of Walter Heape in Cambridge on sex physiology. He worked with Prof. Cossar Ewart, who at that time was conducting his well-known experiments on telegony in farm animals at Penicuik. Here he started his research career and worked in conjunction also with the distinguished group of research physiologists centred around Sir Edward Sharpey Shafer. During this time he published many valuable papers but perhaps one of the most important was that on "The Ovary as an Organ of Internal Secretion", for it led to large developments in this field later. The University of Edinburgh honoured him with a D.Sc. and later with an LL.D. degree, and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [Nature 163, 313-313 (26 February 1949)
Fellow Christ's College 1919-1949. [see also photo cc00751]
