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Sir William Stanley Peart (31 March 1922 – 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. 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."
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).
He was the first to purify the peptide hormone angiotensin and determine its structure. He later isolated the enzyme renin — which Catalysis 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.
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