Drummond, J. C. (Jack C.)
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The eighteenth centurybook chapter 1940
- Summary
- Sir Jack Cecil Drummond FRIC, FRS, known as a child as Jack Cecil Spinks, was a biochemist, noted for his work on nutrition as applied to the British diet under rationing during the Second World War. He was murdered, together with his wife and 10-year-old daughter, in what became known as the Dominici affair, on the night of 4–5 August 1952 near Lurs, a village or commune in the Basses-Alpes department of Southern France. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][3]
- Unknown [2]
- Born
- 1891 [2]
- 1891-01-12 [3]
- Birth Place
- Leicester [3]
- Died
- 1952 [2]
- 1952-08-05 [3]
- Death Place
- Lurs [3]
- Country
- Great Britain [2]
- Occupation
- biochemist [3]
- chemist [3]
- physiologist [3]
- university teacher [3]
- Profession
- Biochemiker [2]
- Employer
- University College London [3]
- King's College London [3]
- Educated at
- King's College London [3]
- Queen Mary University of London [3]
- John Roan School [3]
- Country of Education
- United Kingdom [3]
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Biography (requires subscription) [3]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [3]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Wikidata
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