Joan Mott

Mott was born on 9 January 1921 at Parkstone, Dorset.^[1] She was educated Cheltenham Ladies' College and then studied at Newnham College, University of Cambridge.^[1]

Mott worked for the majority of her career at the University of Oxford's Nuffield Institute for Medical Research. Following wartime work on anti-fouling of ships her main research interest was in the circulatory system, especially the fetal renin–angiotensin system.^[1][2] She studied the breathing movements in nephrectomised lamb foetuses^[3] and tested the response to haemorrhaging in altricial species (rabbits) and the otprecocial species (sheep).^[4] She was Secretary of the Neonatal Society from 1963 to 1967.^[1]

Mott was a founding fellow of and Vicegerent of Wolfson College, Oxford.^[2]

Mott died on 21 April 1994 at Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire.^[1][2]

The biennial Joan Mott Prize Lecture Celebrating Women Physiologists, hosted by The Physiological Society, is named in her honour.^[5] The event was established in 1995 and is funded by a bequest from her will.^[6]

• G. S. Dawes; Joan C. Mott; J. G. Widdicombe; D. G. Wyatt (1 July 1953). "Changes in the lungs of the new-born lamb". The Journal of Physiology. 121 (1): 141–162. doi:10.1113/JPHYSIOL.1953.SP004936. ISSN 0022-3751. PMC 1366061. PMID 13085305. Wikidata Q73260990.
• G. S. Dawes; Joan C. Mott; Heather J. Shelley (1 June 1959). "The importance of cardiac glycogen for the maintenance of life in foetal lambs and newborn animals during anoxia". The Journal of Physiology. 146 (3): 516–538. doi:10.1113/JPHYSIOL.1959.SP006208. ISSN 0022-3751. PMID 13665675. Wikidata Q78704147.
• S. CASSIN; G. S. DAWES; J. C. MOTT; B. B. ROSS; L. B. STRANG (1 May 1964). "The vascular resistance of the foetal and newly ventilated lung of the lamb". The Journal of Physiology. 171: 61–79. doi:10.1113/JPHYSIOL.1964.SP007361. ISSN 0022-3751. PMC 1368776. PMID 14170145. Wikidata Q76854018.
• G. S. Dawes; J. C. Mott; J. G. Widdicombe (1 November 1951). "Respiratory and cardiovascular reflexes from the heart and lungs". The Journal of Physiology. 115 (3): 258–291. doi:10.1113/JPHYSIOL.1951.SP004670. ISSN 0022-3751. PMC 1392066. PMID 14898511. Wikidata Q75949463.