Alan Battersby

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Sir Alan Rushton Battersby (born March 4, 1925 in Leigh , Great Britain - † February 10, 2018 ) was a British chemist .

Life

Battersby studied at the University of Manchester , where he made his bachelor's degree in 1943 and his master's degree in 1947. In 1949 he received his doctorate from the University of St. Andrews , where he was a lecturer from 1948 to 1953. He was then a lecturer at Bristol University and from 1962 to 1969 professor at Liverpool University . Since 1969 he has been Professor of Organic Chemistry at Cambridge (St. Catherine's College). In 1992 he retired.

Battersby was known for his work on the elucidation of the structure and the complex biological synthesis of biomolecules such as heme , chlorophyll and vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin) as well as various groups of plant alkaloids such as the morphines .

The Royal Society of Chemistry awarded him the Corday Morgan Medal in 1959 . In 2000 he received the Welch Award with Ian Scott and in 1986 the Robert Robinson Award . In 1989 he received the Wolf Prize in Chemistry with Duilio Arigoni for the elucidation of the biosynthesis of the “pigments of life”, heme, chlorophyll and vitamin B, which are based on similar tetrapyrrole structures . In 1992 he was knighted as a Knight Bachelor ("Sir").

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society , whose Copley Medal he received in 2000 and whose Royal Medal he received in 1989. In 1978 he received the Davy Medal , 1977, the Paul Karrer Medal , 1986 International Feltrinelli Prize , 1987, Adolf Windaus Medal of the German Chemical Society , the 1995 Tetrahedron Prize and the 2000 Welch Award in Chemistry under numerous other awards. He had been a member of the Leopoldina since 1967 , in 1988 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1989 to the Academia Europaea .

In 1962 he received a D. Sc. from Bristol University and an Sc. D. Cambridge University. He has received several honorary doctorates (Sheffield, Bristol, Liverpool, Rockefeller University, St. Andrews, Heriot-Watt University).

He had been married since 1949 and had two sons from the marriage.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary Notices. Cambridge University, February 14, 2018, accessed February 26, 2018 .
  2. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Alan Rushton Battersby at academictree.org, accessed on January 6, 2018th
  3. ^ Winfried R. Pötsch, Annelore Fischer and Wolfgang Müller with the collaboration of Heinz Cassebaum : Lexicon of important chemists . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1988, p. 31, ISBN 3-323-00185-0 .
  4. ↑ אלן באטרסבי (Alan R. Battersby). Retrieved January 16, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Member entry of Sir Alan R. Battersby at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 29, 2016.
  6. ^ Membership directory: Alan Battersby. Academia Europaea, accessed October 26, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Battersby, Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Battersby, Sir Alan Rushton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British chemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Leigh
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 2018