James Gray (zoologist)

Sir Charles James Gray ( born October 14, 1891 in London, † December 14, 1975 in Cambridge ) was a British zoologist who worked in the fields of cell biology and locomotion. According to him, the Graysche paradox is named.

James Gray, born in London in 1891, completed in 1913, King's College, University of Cambridge. The First World War broke out in 1914 prevented him from immediately pursue an academic career. Only after his war effort Gray returned to Cambridge in 1919.

Gray in 1931, after he had published his Textbook of Experimental Cytology, Fellow of the Royal Society. 1948, the Royal Medal he was awarded for Natural Sciences of the Royal Society. From 1937 to 1954 he was professor of zoology at the University of Cambridge. 1951 James Gray was invited to give the traditional Royal Institution Christmas Lecture. He chose for the topic "How Animals Move".

1954 was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II James Gray.

Works

• A Textbook of Experimental Cytology (1931 )