Walter Morley Fletcher

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Walter Morley Fletcher

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Birthplace: United Kingdom
Death: June 07, 1933 (59)
United Kingdom
Immediate Family:

Husband of Mary Frances Cropper
Father of Charles Montague Fletcher and Anne Cicely Hopkinson

Managed by: Martin Severin Eriksen
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About Walter Morley Fletcher

Sir Walter Morley Fletcher, KBE FRS was a British physiologist and administrator. Fletcher graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge and was most significant in his administration of the Medical Research Council (MRC) during the interwar years. Under his guidance, the MRC focused its funding on basic scientific research at the expense of clinical research but he made Britain a leader in biomedical research in the period.

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Walter Morley Fletcher's Timeline

1873
July 21, 1873
United Kingdom
1911
June 5, 1911
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
June 5, 1911
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
1933
June 7, 1933
Age 59
United Kingdom