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Did you know... that biochemist Rosalind Pitt-Rivers co-discovered the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine in 1952?

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Is it OK to include the citation for her FRS? "Distinguished as a biochemist, and particularly for her work on the thyroid gland. She has made important contributions to knowledge of the biosynthesis of thyroxine and of the mode of action of antithyroid substances."

This is online at the Royal Society:

http://royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=%28RefNo==%27EC%2F1954%2F16%27%29 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fnorman-london (talk • contribs) 16:04, 19 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Another source worth checking is her Biog Memoir: http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/39/326.full.pdf+html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fnorman-london (talk • contribs) 16:06, 19 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Good spot! I'm no expert but I think the Biog Memoirs would be a better source but the archival doc might also count. --Miamelba (talk) 16:06, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Rosalind Pitt-Rivers (4 March 1907 – 14 January 1990) was a British biochemist, whose research focused mainly on the thyroid gland. In 1954, she was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. She was made a fellow of Bedford College, London, in 1973, an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1983, and an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1986.

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