| Activity | Education:
Manchester Grammar School and the University of Manchester (BSc 1941, 1st Class Honours in Chemistry, MSc 1942, PhD 1944, DSc 1953; Graduate Research Scholar 1941, Sir Clement Royds Memorial Scholar 1942, Beyer Fellow 1943-4); University of Cambridge (MA 1981, ScD 1986); Honorary DSc, Heriot-Watt University, 1979, University of Bath, 1986.
Career:
Imperial Chemical Industries Research Fellow, University of Cambridge, 1945-1949; Swedish Medical Research Council Fellow, Wenner-Grens Institute for Cell Biology, Stockholm, 1947-1949. Member of staff, Department of Biochemistry, the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, London, 1949-1955. Rockefeller Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University Medical School, Boston, USA, 1954. Professor of Organic Chemistry, Kings College, University of Durham 1955-1977 (later University of Newcastle upon Tyne); Karl Folkers Visiting Professor of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, 1962; Special Visiting Lecturer, Department of Microbiology, Temple University, Philadelphia, 1966; Head of the School of Chemistry, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1968-1978; Professor of Chemical Microbiology, 1977-1983, now Emeritus, and Director of the Microbiological Chemistry Research Laboratory, 1975-1983, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; Science and Engineering Research Council Senior Research Fellow, and Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, 1981-1985, later Emeritus.
Member:
Council, Chemical Society, 1962-1965; Committee, Biochemical Society, 1964-1967; Member, CIBA-Geigy Fellowship Advisory Board, 1967-1988; Council, Society for General Microbiology, 1973-1975; Council, Science and Engineering Research Council, 1979-1981 (Enzyme Chemistry and Technology Committee, 1972-1975; Biological Sciences Committee, 1976-1979; Science Board, 1979-1981); Council, Royal Society, 1977-1979. Editorial Boards, Biochemical Preparations, 1960-1970, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1970-1977. Cambridge Studies in Biotechnology, 1985-1994; Vice President, Alzheimers Research Trust since 1994.
Honours and awards:
Meldola Medal, Royal Institute of Chemistry, 1947; Corday-Morgan Medal, Chemical Society, 1952; Tilden Lecturer, Chemical Society, 1959; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1961; Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1962; Leeuwenhoeck Lecturer, Royal Society, 1967; Davy Medal, Royal Society, 1974; Pedler Lecturer, Royal Society of Chemistry, 1978; Endowment Lecturer, Bose Institute, Calcutta, 1980; Honorary Member, American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Kt 1977 |