Kenneth Bailey (biochemist)
Kenneth Bailey (born August 18, 1909 in Alsagers Bank near Stoke-on-Trent , † May 22, 1963 in Cambridge ) was a British biochemist (protein chemistry).
Bailey studied chemistry from 1928 at the University of Birmingham , turned there under RH Hopkin to biochemistry, and was from 1933 at Imperial College London . In 1935 he became a member of the research group of William Astbury , with whom he became friends, on a Rockefeller Fellowship , and in 1939 he was with Edwin Joseph Cohn at Harvard University . From the end of 1939 he conducted research at Cambridge, partly as an ICI fellow, and in 1948 he became a Fellow of Trinity College and Assistant Director of Research. In 1955 he was on a sabbatical year at the Naples Zoological Station.
He examined the function of myosin in muscles and found in 1939 that this is an ATPase (independently, Wladimir Alexandrowitsch Engelhardt and his wife Militza Lyubimowa in the Soviet Union came to the same result around this time).
In 1946 he isolated tropomyosin and made it crystalline. In 1951/52 he showed that the transition from fibrinogen to fibrin is caused by the enzyme thrombin .
From 1943 he was co-editor of the Biochemical Journal and 1949 of the Advances in Protein Chemistry. In 1953 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society .
Fonts
- Editor with Hans Neurath: The Proteins, II, Part A, Academic Press 1954
literature
- Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 24
- AC Chibnall: Obituary in Biographical Memoirs Fellows Royal Society 1964, pdf
Individual evidence
- ^ AC Chibnall: Kenneth Bailey, 1909-1963; Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 10, 1-13 (1964)
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| SURNAME | Bailey, Kenneth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | at Stoke-on-Trent |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 1963 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |