Hugh Davson’s work on the cell membrane was a major contribution to an area that is now recognised as fundamental for much of modern physiology and pharmacology. He was also a pioneering investigator of the physiology of eye fluids and the cerebrospinal fluid and a prolific and elegant writer of textbooks and research monographs. After wartime work on visual physiology with the military, he was employed as a member of staff of the Medical Research Council from 1954. Based at UCL for much of his career, he held several visiting professorships after his 1973 retirement in Britain and the US, where he was also awarded numerous prizes and honours. He was elected an honorary member of the Physiology Society in 1985.

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