Authorised form of name | Moore; Benjamin (1867 - 1922); biochemist |
Dates | 1867 - 1922 |
Nationality | British |
Date of birth | 14 January 1867 |
Place of death | Oxford, England |
Date of death | 03/03/1922 |
Occupation | Biochemist |
Research field | Biochemistry |
Activity | Education: B Eng (Queen's College, Belfast); MA; DSc (Roy University of Ireland) Career: Associate Professor of Physiology, Yale University, USA; Lecturer on physiology, Charing Cross Hospital, London; Professor of Biochemistry, University of Liverpool (from 1902); entered Medical Research Council (1914); Professor of Biochemistry, University of Oxford (from 1920); died of pneumonia. Memberships: MRCS; LRCP |
Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 02/05/1912 |
Age at election | 45 |
Proposer | Charles Scott Sherrington; Leonard Hill; Edward Albert Schafer; John Scott Haldane; Frederick Gowland Hopkins; William Abbott Herdman; Charles James Martin; William Ramsay |
Relationships | Parents: Children: Thomas Moore (1900–99), nutritional biochemist who became the first deputy director of the MRC Dunn Nutritional Laboratory |
PublishedWorks | RCN 49640 RCN R60934 RCN 55963 |
OtherInfo | Founded the Biochemical Journal, which was one of the earliest academic journals in the subject. Held the first chair of biochemistry in the United Kingdom. |
Source | Sources: Bulloch's Roll Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc Series B 1927 vol 101 pp xvii-xix, plate, by Sir Frederic Gowland Hopkins |
Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/31550735 |
Code | NA5508 |
RefNo | Title | Date |
EC/1912/10 | Moore, Benjamin: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
NLB/46/125 | Copy letter from John Rose Bradford, to Professor [Benjamin] Moore, Fellow of the Royal Society | 13 June 1912 |
NLB/52/593 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Benjamin Moore, FRS; 84 Shrewsbury Road, Birkenhead | 25 January 1916 |
NLB/50/75 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Benjamin] Moore, Fellow of the Royal Society | 27 April 1914 |
NLB/51/269 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor Benjamin Moore FRS | 29 January 1915 |
NLB/51/613 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor Benjamin Moore FRS | 6 May 1915 |
NLB/60/626 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Benjamin] Moore, FRS | 4 March 1921 |
NLB/67/427 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Frederick Gowland] Hopkins, FRS | 18 December 1924 |
NLB/58/446 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Benjamin] Moore, FRS | 6 May 1920 |
NLB/58/53 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Mr. [Benjamin] Moore, FRS | 5 March 1920 |
NLB/58/494 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Benjamin] Moore, FRS | 13 May 1920 |
NLB/58/19 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Benjamin] Moore, FRS | 2 March 1920 |
NLB/55/226 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Benjamin] Moore, FRS | 23 January 1918 |
NLB/58/447 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Benjamin] Moore, FRS | 6 May 1920 |
NLB/58/391 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Benjamin] Moore, FRS | 29 April 1920 |
NLB/55/168 | Copy letter from [William Bate] Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Professor [Benjamin] Moore, FRS | 03 January 1918 |
NLB/58/573 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Benjamin] Moore, FRS | 26 May 1920 |
NLB/58/808 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Benjamin] Moore, FRS | 21 June 1920 |
NLB/60/186 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Benjamin] Moore, FRS | 20 December 1920 |
RR/13/111 | Letter from Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, on his paper with Benjamin Moore 'On the spinal-root connections and ganglion-cell connections of the nerve-fibres which produce contraction of the spleen' to the Secretary of the Royal Scoiety | 1896 |
RR/13/110 | Letter from Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, on his paper with Benjamin Moore 'On the spinal-root connections and ganglion-cell connections of the nerve-fibres which produce contraction of the spleen' to the Secretary of the Royal Scoiety | 12 February 1896 |
NLB/60/546 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Benjamin] Moore, FRS | 21 February 1921 |
RR/21/77 | Referee's report by Benjamin Moore, on a paper 'The electrical conductivity of echinoderm eggs, and its bearing on the problems of fertilisation and artificial parthenogenesis' by James Gray | 22 December 1914 |
RR/24/43 | Referee's report by Edward John Russell, on a paper 'The formation of nitrites from nitrates in aqueous solution by the action of sunlight, and the assimilation of the nitrites by green leaves in sunlight' by Benjamin Moore | 22 December 1917 |
RR/24/42 | Referee's report by Frederick Frost Blackman, on a paper 'The formation of nitrites from nitrates in aqueous solution by the action of sunlight, and the assimilation of the nitrites by green leaves in sunlight' by Benjamin Moore | [November 1917] |
NLB/57/809 | Copy letter from Sir William Bate Hardy, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor B [Benjamin] Moore, FRS | 12 February 1920 |
NLB/57/729 | Copy letter from Sir William Bate Hardy, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor B [Benjamin ] Moore, FRS | 29 January 1920 |
NLB/62/641 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Frederick Gowland] Hopkins, FRS | 31 March 1922 |
NLB/57/810 | Copy letter from Sir William Bate Hardy, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to H [Harold William Taylor ] Wager Esq, FRS | 12 February 1920 |
NLB/57/876 | Copy letter from Sir William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor B [Benjamin] Moore, FRS | 26 February 1920 |
NLB/57/787 | Copy letter from Sir William Bate Hardy, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor B [Benjamin] Moore, FRS | 4 February 1920 |
NLB/68/405 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Frederick [Gowland] Hopkins, FRS | 9 July 1925 |
NLB/58 | New Letter Book volume 58, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration | 28 February 1920-9 July 1920 |
RR/13/109 | Letter from Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, on his paper with Benjamin Moore 'On the spinal-root connections and ganglion-cell connections of the nerve-fibres which produce contraction of the spleen' to the Secretary of the Royal Scoiety | 10 January 1896 |
RR/24/67 | Referee's report by Frederick Frost Blackman, on a paper 'Action of light rays on organic compounds, and the photosynthesis of organic from inorganic compounds in presence of inorganic colloids' by Benjamin Moore and T A Webster | [January 1918] |