Hamilton Hartridge

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1886 – 1976

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Who was Hamilton Hartridge?

Hamilton Hartridge was a British eye physiologist and medical writer.

Hamilton Hartridge was educated at Harrow and King's College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow from 1912 to 1926. He graduated in medicine from St George's Hospital in 1914, serving during the war as an experimental officer at RNAS Kingsnorth. In 1916 he married Kathleen Wilson. After the war he stayed in Cambridge University as lecturer in special senses and senior demonstrator in physiology. He gained a reputation as an ingenious experimenter, as well as working to revise established medical textbooks. From 1927 to 1947 he was professor of physiology at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and from 1947 to 1951 director of the vision research unit of the Medical Research Council. He was president of the Quekett Microscopical Club from 1951 to 1954 and he was elected an Honorary Member in 1952. In 1946 he delivered the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures entitled Colours and how we see them.

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Born
May 7, 1886
Education
  • King's College, Cambridge
  • Harrow School
Died
Jan 13, 1976

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on July 23, 2013

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