Eric Boyland

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Eric Boyland (born February 24, 1905 in Manchester , † May 31, 2002 ) was a British biochemist .

Boyland studied at Manchester College of Technology and then started working for the British Alizarin Company. He continued to study chemistry in evening classes, graduating in 1926. In 1930 he went to Heidelberg to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research , where he met his future wife.

In 1932 he postulated that the chemically inert , but nonetheless carcinogenic hydrocarbons in the body were metabolized into reactive intermediates. It was not until 1964 that the arene oxides were synthesized by MS Newman and S. Blum, which confirmed the thesis.

From 1939 until his retirement in 1970 he worked at the Chester Beatty Research Institute (now the Institute of Cancer Research ).

In the 1950s he was working on the aromatic amines that cause bladder cancer .

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