Stanley Peart

Stanley Peart
Peart in 1987
Born
William Stanley Peart

(1922-03-31)31 March 1922
South Shields, County Durham, England
Died14 March 2019(2019-03-14) (aged 96)
Highgate, London, England
FatherJack Peart
Awards
Scientific career
Fields

Sir William Stanley Peart FMedSci FRS[1] (31 March 1922[2] – 14 March 2019) was a British medical doctor and clinical researcher who was first to demonstrate the release of noradrenaline after the stimulation of sympathetic nerves.[3]

Early life and education

Peart was the son of footballer and Fulham Football Club manager John George Peart and Margaret Joan (née Fraser).[4][5]

Peart was educated at King's College School Bradford Grammar School and St Mary's Hospital Medical School (now part of Imperial College School of Medicine).[6]

Work

Peart's main research interest lay in renal medicine and in particular, a hormone system that regulates blood pressure and water called the renin–angiotensin system.

He was the first to purify the peptide hormone angiotensin and determine its structure. He later isolated the enzyme renin — which catalyses the production of angiotensin — and carried out work to investigate the control of its release in the body. Peart is also acknowledged as being the driving force behind the development of the renal transplant programme at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London.

Peart was Chair of the Medical Research Society for more than a decade and later a member of the Medical Research Council. He was also a trustee of the Wellcome Trust, where he headed their first clinical panel.[3]

Awards and honours

Peart was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1969. He was knighted in 1985.[3] He was awarded the Buchanan Medal of the Royal Society in 2000 "for his contribution to the foundations of understanding of the renin angiotensin system in particular through his seminal work on the isolation and determination of the structure of angiotensin, purification of renin, and subsequent studies on the control of renin release".[7]

Personal life

In 1947,[8] Peart married Peggy Parkes, a nurse at St Mary's Hospital.[4]

Interviews

Peart, Stanley; Blythe, Max (1993). "Sir Stanley Peart FRS in interview with Dr Max Blythe: Interview 1, Part 1". Medical Sciences Video Archive. Oxford Brookes University. doi:10.24384/000236. Retrieved 9 March 2020.

Peart, Stanley; Blythe, Max (1993). "Sir Stanley Peart FRS in interview with Dr Max Blythe: Interview 1, Part 2". Medical Sciences Video Archive. Oxford Brookes University. doi:10.24384/000057. Retrieved 9 March 2020.

Peart, Stanley; Blythe, Max (1994). "Sir Stanley Peart FRS in interview with Dr Max Blythe: Interview 2". Medical Sciences Video Archive. Oxford Brookes University. doi:10.24384/000055. Retrieved 9 March 2020.

Peart, Stanley; Asconas, Ita (1994). "Sir Stanley Peart FRS in interview with Dr Ita Askonas FRS: Interview 3". Medical Sciences Video Archive. Oxford Brookes University. doi:10.24384/000234. Retrieved 9 March 2020.

Peart, Stanley; Blythe, Max (1995). "Sir Stanley Peart FRS in interview with Dr Max Blythe: Interview 4". Medical Sciences Video Archive. Oxford Brookes University. doi:10.24384/000056. Retrieved 9 March 2020.

Peart, Stanley; Asconas, Ita (1995). "Sir Stanley Peart FRS in interview with Dr Max Blythe: Interview 5". Medical Sciences Video Archive. Oxford Brookes University. doi:10.24384/000235. Retrieved 9 March 2020.

References

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  1. ^ Gordon, David (2024). "William Stanley Peart. 31 March 1922—14 March 2019". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 74.
  2. ^ "Burke's Peerage – Preview Family Record". Burke's Peerage. Retrieved 28 January 2009.
  3. ^ a b c "Stanley Peart". London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences may incorporate text from the royalsociety.org website where "all text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived February 20, 2016)
  4. ^ a b "Sir William Stanley Peart | RCP Museum".
  5. ^ "William Stanley Peart - The Renal Association". renal.org. Archived from the original on 19 June 2020.
  6. ^ "Oxford Brookes University: Medical Video Archive: Sir Stanley Peart FRS". Retrieved 28 January 2009.
  7. ^ "Buchanan recent winners (2006–1962)". The Royal Society. Retrieved 28 January 2009.
  8. ^ Peart, Stanley; Blythe, Max (1994). "Sir Stanley Peart FRS in interview with Dr Max Blythe" (Interview). doi:10.24384/000055.