Guy Frederic Marrian

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International congress on sex hormones 1935, Marrian is the 5th from the right (right next to Adolf Butenandt)

Guy Frederic Marrian (born March 3, 1904 in London , † July 24, 1981 ) was a British biochemist .

Guy Frederic Marrian was born in London to Frederic York Marrian and Mary Eddington Currie. He went first to the Tollington School in London, then to the Leys School in Cambridge .

Marrian studied chemistry at the University of London with a bachelor's degree in 1924 , a master's degree in 1926 and a doctorate (D.Sc.) in 1930 . He was then a lecturer at University College London and from 1933 Associate Professor at the University of Toronto , where he became Professor of Biochemistry in 1936 . In 1939 he became professor of medicinal chemistry (from 1949 for biochemistry ) at the Medical Faculty of the University of Edinburgh . In 1959 he became the research director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. In 1969 he retired .

He dealt with hormones, especially female sex hormones and hormones of the adrenal cortex . In 1929 he isolated pregnanediol and in 1930 estriol .

In 1940 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and in 1944 of the Royal Society . In 1947 he received the Amory Prize .

In 1928 he married Phyllis May Lewis.

Fonts

  • The chemistry of Oestrine, Part 1-4, Biochemical J., Volume 23, 1929, pp. 1090-1098, 1233-1241, Volume 24, 1930, pp. 435-445, 1021-1030, Part 5 with Geoffrey Arthur Dering Haslewood, Vol. 26, 1932, pp. 25-31

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed March 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Marrian, Guy Frederic
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1981