14 Facts About Lionel Penrose

Lionel Penrose was educated at the Downs School, Colwall and the Quaker Leighton Park School, Reading.

Lionel Penrose went on to study at St John's College, Cambridge, where he was a Cambridge Apostle.

Lionel Penrose undertook research into schizophrenia, designing tests of intelligence that were non-verbal in nature that are still in use.

Lionel Penrose was one of the earliest investigators of phenylketonuria in the 1930s.

Lionel Penrose found that the relatives of patients with severe intellectual disability were usually unaffected but some of them were affected with similar severity to the original patient, whereas the relatives of patients with mild intellectual disability tended mostly to have mild or borderline disability.

Lionel Penrose went on to identify and study many of the genetic and chromosomal causes of intellectual disability.

Lionel Penrose was a central figure in British medical genetics following World War II.

Lionel Penrose, a member of the Society of Friends, was a lead figure in the Medical Association for the Prevention of War in the 1950s.

Lionel Penrose developed the Lionel Penrose method, a method for apportioning seats in a global assembly based on the square root of each nation's population.

Lionel Penrose was particularly interested in different facets of biology, for example fingerprints, demography, and cytogenetics, which were a result of his research into the etiology of intellectual disability, especially Down syndrome.

Lionel Penrose did intensive research on the latter, communicating the results of his investigations in 1963 and winning the Joseph P Kennedy Jr.

Lionel Penrose received a number of awards and honours including the 1960 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.

Lionel Penrose was awarded the James Spence Gold Medal of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in 1964 for major contributions in human genetics and extensive research into Down syndrome and Intellectual disability.

Lionel Penrose married Margaret Leathes in 1928 and they had four children:.