| RefNo | EC/1958/02 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XVI, 209; A00012 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Abraham, Sir Edward Penley: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Certificate of Election |
| Citation | Distinguished as an organic chemist and biochemist. He played a prominent part in the isolation of penicillin -1 and the determination of its chemical structure, and has recently discovered and characterised a penicillin of a new type. He was a co-discoverer of the enzyme penicillinase. Together with his colleagues he has isolated and studied numerous antibacterial substances from natural sources, and has thrown light on the structures and antibacterial activities of several families of new polypeptides, including the bacitracins and nisins. His work has also helped to establish the structure of the coenzyme alloxazine-adenine dinucleotide and to elucidate the metabolism of trytophan in the body. |
| Proposers | Robert Robinson; H W Florey; Paul Fildes; J H Burn; Rudolph A Peters; A R Todd; I M Heilbron; A H Cook; Dorothy Hodgkin; R L M Synge; J W Cornforth; N W Pirie |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA3381 | Abraham; Sir; Edward Penley (1913 - 1999) | 1913 - 1999 |