Alan Sterling Parkes

Sir Alan Sterling Parkes FRS CBE (10 September 1900 - 17 July 1990) was an English reproductive biologist credited with Christopher Polge and Audrey Smith for the discovery that spermatozoa can be protected against induced damage induced by freezing and low-temperature storage using glycerol.[1] This work enabled the development of the field of cryobiology.[2]


Alan Sterling Parkes

Born10 September 1900
Died17 July 1990 (aged 89)
Alma materChrist's College, Cambridge University of Manchester
AwardsCameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh (1962)
Scientific career
FieldsReproductive biology

Additionally, he published on the reproductive effects of X-rays on mice, hormonal control of secondary sexual characteristics in birds, and aided Hilda Bruce in research that established the Bruce effect.[2][3]

In 1962, Parkes was awarded the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh.[4]

References

  1. Polge, C.; Smith, A. U.; Parkes, A. S. (1949). "Revival of Spermatozoa after Vitrification and Dehydration at Low Temperatures". Nature. 164 (4172): 666–666. doi:10.1038/164666a0. ISSN 1476-4687.
  2. Polge, Christopher (2006). "Sir Alan Sterling Parkes. 10 September 1900 — 17 July 1990: Elected FRS 1933". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 52: 263–283. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2006.0019. ISSN 0080-4606.
  3. "Parkes, Sir Alan Sterling (1900–1990), reproductive biologist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/40018. Retrieved 2020-05-12.
  4. Lamming, G.E., ed. (1994). Marshall’s Physiology of Reproduction. 3 (4th ed.). Chapman & Hall. pp. xviii. doi:10.1007/978-94-011-1286-4. ISBN 978-94-010-4561-2.


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