| RefNo | EC/1974/03 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XIX, 114 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Burton, Kenneth: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Burton's early chemical work established reliable methods for obtaining free energy data for biochemical reactions and especially the free energy of hydrolysis of ATP. He was among the first to realize the importance of chelation complexes between magnesium ions and adenosine phosphates and was the first to devise methods for measuring the formation constants of such complexes. His later work has dealt mainly with the estimation, biosynthesis and analysis of DNA. HE devised what remains the standard method for the estimation of DNA. HE discovered the fact that replication of bacteriophage DNA in the bacterial cell required the prior synthesis of protein. This discovery was the original work which finally established the existence of specific enzymes for the replication of bacteriophage nucleic acids. He has made original and important contributions to the analysis of base sequence in DNA and has devised novel degradative procedures which greatly facilitate this form of analysis. |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA4500 | Burton; Kenneth (1926 - 2010) | 1926 - 2010 |