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computers running in parallel. In 2003, a scientific meeting was organised in London to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of Aldosterone, but Sylvia died shortly beforehand and Tait was undergoing
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at UM. Following Pincus' death, Tait became joint chairman of the scientific council of the Worcester Foundation. In 1970, the Taits returned to the Middlesex Hospital as joint heads of the
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Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology Vol 217, Nos 1–2, pp 1–270 March 31, 2004. Special Issue Proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium on Aldosterone.
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in 1926, the son of Herbert and Constance Tait (nÊe Brotherton). His parents ran a small grocery shop, but his father died when he was 10. Tait attended
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and continued his scientific interests and writing. He authored or co-authored over 150 scientific papers during his career.
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to read Physics, graduating in 1945. He joined Whiddington's research group at Leeds. completing his PhD thesis entitled
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as "one of the most successful examples of husband-wife collaboration." Together, they discovered and identified the
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Vinson, Gavin P.; Coghlan, John P. (2018). "James Francis Tait. 1 December 1925 – 2 February 2014".
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Unit. Tait was also Joel Professor of Physics as Applied to Medicine. They worked on adrenal
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A quarter of Unlikely Discoveries Sylvia As Tait and Tames F Tait 2004 Athena Press.
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The Independent newspaper Obituary 22 February 2014 John P Coghlan and Gavin Vinson
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Derek A Denton; I MacIntyre (1 December 2006). "Sylvia Agnes Sophia Tait".
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in 1959. They were only the second married couple to become FRSs (after
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Tadeus Reichstein Award of the International Endocrine Society 1976
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from 1948 until her death in 2003, a partnership described by the
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Husband and wife amongst top medical scientists in country
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where they continued their scientific research using two
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
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endocrinologist
Sylvia Agnes Sophia Tait
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
hormone
aldosterone
Stockton on Tees
Darlington Queen Elizabeth 1 Grammar School
Physics
Chemistry
English Literature
Higher School Certificate
Leeds University
electrons
discharge tubes
Middlesex Hospital Medical School
steroids
Ralph Dorfman
aldosterone
Tadeus Reichstein
Nobel Prize
cortisol
Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
Gregory Pincus
radioactively

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