| RefNo | EC/1969/16 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XVIII, 127 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Hems, Benjamin Arthur: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | After completing his doctorate work in Barger's laboratory at Edinburgh, Hems joined the Research Department of Glaxo Laboratories Limited as an organic chemistry and played an important part in work on penicillin during the war years. Thereafter he carried out outstanding work on synthesis of thyroxine and related compounds which was published in a series of memoirs in the Journal of the Chemical Society. His ingenuity an his capacity to solve daunting synthetic problems was further emphasised by the work which he and his colleagues successfully accomplished in the multistage synthesis of cortisone derivatives from hecogenin. More recently he has been responsible for the development of the steroid betamethasone esters and for work on cephalosporin leading to the antibiotic cephaloridine. These latter products are among the most successful drugs stemming from research carried out in the British pharmaceutical industry and, together with other drugs for which he was largely responsible, bear witness to the practical success as well as he scientific quality of Hem's researches. |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA2127 | Hems; Benjamin Arthur (1912 - 1995) | 1912 - 1995 |