Frank Rose

Career

Prior to his election in this constituency, he had been the first Labour Parliamentary candidate for Crewe, in 1910.

As leader of the Medicinal Chemicals Section of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. (Dyestuffs Division) he, with his colleague, the late Dr. F.H.S. Curd, was responsible for the brilliant series of researches culminating in the discovery of the antimalarial drug paludrine, His contributions throughout have been marked by skill in experimentation and by the originality of his concepts of the relation between chemical structure and pharmacological action, concepts which have paved the way for his numerous successes in the field of chemotherapy, e.g. synthesis of paludrine, and of the trypanocide antrycide." He won their Leverhulme Prize in 1975.

31st United Kingdom Parliament. 32nd United Kingdom Parliament. 33rd United Kingdom Parliament.

34th United Kingdom Parliament.