Researching Gilbert Adair
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 933 people with the Adair surname? In that year Adair was ranked number 2653 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Gilbert means "Trusted" and is of Teutonic origin.
Records of Gilbert Adair on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Gilbert Adair and the Adair Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 2949 people with the Adair surname in the UK? Adair is now ranked number 1831 for popularity in the UK. |
Adair Family Tree Databases
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Adair Forums
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Miscellaneous Adair Databases
Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Gilbert Adair. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Gilbert Adair
Gilbert Smithson Adair
Gilbert Smithson Adair FRS (1896–1979) was an early protein scientist who used osmotic pressure measurements to establish that haemoglobin was a tetramer under physiological conditions. This conclusion led him to be the first to identify cooperative binding, in the context of oxygen binding to haemoglobin.
Gilbert Smithson Adair was born on 21 September 1896 in Whitehaven, son of Harold and Anna Mary Adair (née Jackson), who were Quakers. Gilbert and his sister Anna were initially taught at home by a governess. Later, Gilbert was taught at the Quaker Bootham School, where he was a boarder. The family, meanwhile had moved to Egremont, where Harold Adair was managing director of Wyndham Mining Company Ltd. an iron ore mine.Adair entered King's College, Cambridge from 1915 to 1917, gaining a first in Natural Sciences. He was soon employed by the Food Investigation Board, a wartime research group set up by the DSIR to determine how to prevent wastage of food, particularly fish, meat, fruits, etc. on cargo ships.
In 1920, he became a research student at King's College, and was made an official Fellow in 1928, granting him five years to devote to research. In 1931, he became assistant director of the Physiological Laboratory in Cambridge. He was a Reader in Biophysics from 1945 until his retirement in 1963. Adair was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1939.
He married Muriel Elaine Robinson in Cambridge in 1931. Muriel had entered Girton College in 1918, and went on to obtain a research fellowship at Newnham. She died on 2 January 1975.
As an incidental historical note, Adair provided the purified haemoglobin that Max Perutz used for the first structure determination of any protein (by X-ray crystallography).
Gilbert Smithson Adair died in Cambridge on 22 June 1979.
Source: Gilbert Smithson Adair, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Adair
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