Alan_Sterling_Parkes

Alan Sterling Parkes

Alan Sterling Parkes

English biologist

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]

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Hall was educated at Willaston School.[3]

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][4]

In 1962, Parkes was awarded the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    Polge, C.; Smith, A. U.; Parkes, A. S. (1949). "Revival of Spermatozoa after Vitrification and Dehydration at Low Temperatures". Nature. 164 (4172): 666. doi:10.1038/164666a0. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 18143360. S2CID 4072629.
  2. [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. PMID 18543475.
  3. [3]
    "Willaston School Nantwich - Willaston Web". www.willastonweb.co.uk. Willaston Web. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
  4. [4]
    "Parkes, Sir Alan Sterling (1900–1990), reproductive biologist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/40018. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 2020-05-12. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. [5]
    Lamming, G.E., ed. (1994). Marshall's Physiology of Reproduction. Vol. 3 (4th ed.). Chapman & Hall. pp. xviii. doi:10.1007/978-94-011-1286-4. ISBN 978-94-010-4561-2. S2CID 36620187.


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