Leonard Hubert Stickland

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Leonard Hubert Stickland (born December 4, 1905 ) was a British biochemist.

Stickland studied at Cambridge. He is best known for discovering hydrogenases with Marjory Stephenson , with whom he worked from 1928 to 1934. He was a student then (honored as Goldsmiths Senior Student and Benn W. Levy Student). They found the hydrogenase in E. coli bacteria in the river Ouse near Cambridge, which at the time was very polluted near a sugar beet factory.

In 1931, Stickland earned both a bachelor's and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge.

He later studied the amino acid metabolism of Clostridium sporogenes in Stephenson's laboratory . Stickland also examined glycolysis and metabolism of bone marrow and the liver of rats in carcinogenesis due to butter yellow. In a work from 1934 he introduced the Stickland reaction named after him .

He published in the Biochemical Journal in 1941. From 1948 he was Senior Lecturer for Experimental Biochemistry at the University of Leeds (Department of Experimental Pathology and Cancer Research).

Fonts (selection)

  • with Stephenson: Hydrogenase: a bacterial enzyme activating molecular hydrogen, Biochemical Journal, Volume 25, 1931, pp. 205-214

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Stickland, Leonard Hubert . In: Who's who of British scientists . Longman, 1971.
  2. Soňa Štrbáňová: Holding Hands with Bacteria: The Life and Work of Marjory Stephenson, Springer 2016, p. 32. There, the year of birth is also given, the year of death is provided with a question mark. Photo on p. 33.
  3. Reference in the 1931 article with Stephenson
  4. Stickland, Studies in the metabolism of the strict anaerobes (genus Clostridium), Biochem. J., Vol. 28, 1934, pp. 1746-1759