| Authorised form of name | Hales; Charles Nicholas (1935 - 2005) |
| Other forms of name | Nick |
| Dates | 1935 - 2005 |
| Nationality | British |
| Date of birth | 25/04/1935 |
| Date of death | 15/09/2005 |
| Occupation | Medical Biochemist |
| Research field | Biochemistry |
| Activity | Education:
King Edward VI Grammar School, Stafford; Trinity College, Cambridge; University College Hospital, London
Career:
Appointed university lecturer in Biochemistry at Cambridge (1964); elected a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge; paper published in 'Nature' envisaging the use of enzymes or viruses as alternative labels capable of providing great assay sensitivity; appointed head of the department and honorary consultant in chemical pathology at the Welsh National School of Medicine in Cardiff (1970); appointed head of the the department of clinical biochemistry at Cambridge University and honorary consultant at Addenbrooke's Hospital (1977); discovered with Dan Crook an ATP-sensitive potassium channel in insulin-producing cells that helped to resolve the problem of how glucose instructs the pancreas to secrete insulin (1984); work with David Barker showing that low birth weight greatly increased the risk of diabetes in later life (1991)
Memberships:
Medical Research Council (1985-1990)
Honours:
Awards from the British Diabetic Association; the European Association for the study of Diabetes, the Society for Endocrinology, the Association of Clinical Biochemists, the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Pathologists anf the Biochemical Society. |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 12/03/1992 |
| Age at election | 56 |
| Source | Sources:
Obituary in 'The Times' (12 October 2005)
Biographical Memoirs of the Royal Society, Volume 56 2010, pp 105 - 130 by Kenneth Siddle, J Paul Luzio and Stephen O'Rahilly FRS |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/93161868 |
| Code | NA4209 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/001839 | Hales, Charles Nicholas | 1992 |
| EC/1992/12 | Hales, Charles Nicholas: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1985 |