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British doctor and surgeon
Thomas Snow Beck c. 1852
Thomas Snow Beck
FRS
FRCS
(1814 ? 6 January 1877) was a British doctor and surgeon. He qualified as a doctor in London. In 1845, he was awarded the Royal Society's
Royal Medal
for his unpublished paper entitled
On the nerves of the uterus
. The paper was later published, but the award was disputed by the London-resident Scottish surgeon
Robert Lee
, who had published an earlier paper on the subject and reached different conclusions. This controversy led to reform of the award process for the Royal Medal, and is thought to have contributed to the resignation of both the President and Secretary of the Royal Society. Beck also carried out other work on nerves, including work in 1846 on differentiation between white and gray
rami
. He was elected a fellow of the
Royal Society
in 1851.
Sources
[
edit
]
- Entry for Beck
in the Royal Society's Library and Archive catalogue's details of Fellows (accessed 21 April 2008)
- Haws, C; Krouse, M. E.; Xia, Y; Gruenert, D. C.; Wine, J. J. (1992). "CFTR channels in immortalized human airway cells".
The American Journal of Physiology
.
263
(6 Pt 1): L692?707.
doi
:
10.1152/ajplung.1992.263.6.L692
.
PMID
1282304
.