| Authorised form of name | Rosenheim; Otto (1871 - 1955); organic chemist; biochemist |
| Other forms of name | Sigmund Otto |
| Dates | 1871 - 1955 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Würzburg, Germany, Europe |
| Date of birth | 29 November 1871 |
| Place of death | His home, 75 Hampstead Way, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 07 May 1955 |
| Occupation | Organic chemist and biochemist |
| Research field | Chemistry |
| Organic chemistry |
| Activity | Education:
Würzburg PhD; Manchester University 1894–5
Career:
Military service; went to Geneva to work with Carl Graebe; enrolled at Manchester University; joined Philip Schidrowitz in a practice as analytical and consulting chemists in London (1896); naturalized ctizen (1900); research student of pharmacological chemistry at King's College, London (1901); lecturer in chemical physiology (1905); reader in biochemistry (1915); worked at the National Institute for Medical Research, Hampstead (1920-1942).
Memberships:
One of the original members of the Biochemical Society
FLS
Medical Research Council |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 12/05/1927 |
| Age at election | 56 |
| Proposer | John Beresford Leathes |
| Frederick Gowland Hopkins |
| Charles James Martin |
| Charles Scott Sherrington |
| William Dobinson Halliburton |
| Charles Arthur Lovatt Evans |
| Arthur Lapworth |
| Relationships | Parents: Meier Rosenheim and Adelheid.
Spouse: (m. 26 July 1910) Mary Christine (1868–1953), daughter of William Tebb of Rede Hall, Burstow. |
| PublishedWorks | RCN R71650 |
| OtherInfo | Distinguished for his investigation into the chemical nature of substances of physiological importance. His work on Sphingomyelin and the Galactosides of the brain is recognized to be definitive. He discovered simultaneously with others, but independently, the effect of irradiation upon cholesterol. With Dudley he has established the chemical nature of spermine and effected its synthesis. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Authority:
AltName from BM
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1956 vol 2 pp 257-267, plate, by H King
References:
Neil Morgan, 'William Dobinson Halliburton, FRS (1860-1931). Pioneer of British Biochemistry?' in NR 1983-84 vol 38 pp 129-145 |
| Code | NA1113 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1927/11 | Rosenheim, Otto: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/40/82 | Referee's report by John Beresford Leathes, on a paper 'Monomolecular films of irradiated ergosterol in relation to the production of vitamin D' by Otto Rosenheim | October 1929 |
| RR/42/91 | Referee's report by Otto Rosenheim, on a paper 'Further observations on the ultra-violet absorption spectra of the serum proteins. - The specific extinction coefficient of serum pseudo-globulin' by Frank Campbell Smith and J R Marrack | March 1930 |
| RR/46/28 | Referee's report by Otto Rosenheim, on a paper 'Uteroverdin, the green pigment of the dog's placenta' by R Lemberg and Joseph Barcroft | [January 1932] |
| RR/57/115 | Referee's report by Otto Rosenheim, on a paper 'The carcinogenic action of dibenzcarbazoles' by Eric Boyland and Austin M Brues | [November 1936] |
| RR/57/39 | Referee's report by Otto Rosenheim, on a paper 'Studies on the nature of the amphibian organization centre II—Induction by synthetic polycyclic hydrocarbons' by Conrad Hal Waddington and Dorothy Mary Moyle Needham | [January 1935] |
| RR/60/10 | Referee's report by Otto Rosenheim, on a paper 'The influence of certain carcinogenic and other hydrocarbons on body growth in the rat' by Alexander Haddow and C M Scott | December 1936 |
| RR/60/13 | Referee's report by Otto Rosenheim, on a paper 'The influence of various polycyclic hydrocarbons on the growth rate of transplantable tumours' by Alexander Haddow and A M Robinson | December 1936 |
| RR/59/29 | Referee's report by Otto Rosenheim, on a paper 'Further observations on the oestrogenic activity of synthetic polycyclic compounds' by James Wilfred Cook, Edward Charles Dodds and W Lawson | [May 1936] |
| RR/62/68 | Referee's report by Otto Rosenheim, on a paper 'Studies on the nature of the amphibian organization centre III—The activation of the evocator' by Conrad Hal Waddington, Joseph Needham and Jean Brachet | [January 1936] |
| RR/38/141 | Referee's report by Otto Rosenheim, on a paper 'The ultra-violet absorption spectra of certain aromatic amino-acids, and of the serum proteins' by Frank Campbell Smith | 1 November 1928 |
| MS/580 | Papers on the life and work of John Louis William Thudichum [compiled by Max Leonard Rosenheim] | 1864-1933 |
| RR/42/23 | Referee's report by Otto Rosenheim, on a paper 'A pigment present in the sweat and urine of certain sheep. Its isolation, properties and relationship to bilirubin and the metabolism of hœmoglobin generally' by Claude Rimington and A M Stewart | November 1931 |
| RR/49/65 | Referee's report by Otto Rosenheim, on a paper 'Sex change in the plumage of brown leghorn capons following the injection of certain synthetic æstrus-producing compounds' by James Wilfred Cook, Edward Charles Dodds and A W Greenwood | [October 1933] |
| RR/49/67 | Referee's report by Otto Rosenheim, on a paper 'The oestrogenic activity of some condensed-ring compounds in relation to their other biological activities' by James Wilfred Cook, Edward Charles Dodds, C L Hewett and W Lawson | [October 1933] |
| RR/57/43 | Referee's report by Otto Rosenheim, on a paper 'Studies on the nature of the amphibian organization centre. I—Chemical properties of the evocator' by Conrad Hal Waddington, Joseph Needham, W W Nowinski and R Lemberg | [January 1935] |
| RR/62/69 | Referee's report by Otto Rosenheim, on a paper 'Studies on the nature of the amphibian organization centre IV—Further experiments on the chemistry of the evocator' by Conrad Hal Waddingto, Joseph Needham, W W Nowinski, Max Rudolf Lemberg and Arthur Cohen | [January 1936] |