| Description | Papers and correspondence of chemist Gordon Lowe. The collection spans Lowe's entire career, and includes his undergraduate notebooks from Imperial College as well as his laboratory notebooks from Lincoln College, Oxford. It includes drafts, notes and slides for his own lectures and conference talks, and drafts and related papers for his published works. There is also personal and professional correspondence, including material relating to awards and his Royal Society Fellowship. Some of the later papers include his consultancy work, material relating to his company and various patent applications. |
| AdminHistory | Gordon Lowe was born in Halifax in 1933, and received his BSc in chemistry from Imperial College London in 1954 and his PhD in 1957. Following this he moved to the Dyson Perrins Laboratory in Oxford. Muck of Lowe's career was spent at Lincoln College in Oxford, where he became a fellow of the college in 1962, served as Sub-Rector from 1986 to1989 and taught there until his retirement in 2000. His research made significant contributions to the understanding of enzyme action, and his later work led to potential new sources for antimalarial drugs. A spinout company from Oxford, Pharminox, was formed in 2002 seeking to commercialise his research, but Lowe died a year later in 2003 of a heart attack. |