Malcolm Dixon

Malcolm Dixon (born April 18, 1899 in Cambridge , † December 7, 1985 ibid) was a British biochemist .

Life

Malcolm Dixon was born on April 18, 1899 in Cambridge to Allick Page Dixon and Caroline Dewe Dixon, née Mathews. His parents came from large Cambridge families. His father owned a bookstore and his mother was a head nurse at a boys' boarding school. He attended the Perse School in Cambridge, but had to leave it at the age of twelve due to tuberculosis and received private lessons. At the age of 16 he began to prepare for admission to the University of Cambridge and in 1917 he was admitted to Emmanuel College , where he studied Natural Sciences Tripos, NST). In his final semesters of study his interest in biochemistry was aroused and in 1921 he became a PhD student with Frederick Gowland Hopkins , the first professor in Cambridge in the field and later Nobel Prize winner for the discovery of vitamins (with Christiaan Eijkman ). Dixon dealt with catalysis by enzymes and received his doctorate in 1925 with the work: The types of oxidation-reduction system, enzymic and non-enzymic, present in living animal tissues .

Dixon then worked in teaching and research at the University of Cambridge until his retirement in 1966. Among other things, he dealt with the isolation and classification of enzymes and the kinetics of enzyme-catalyzed reactions. He later became director of the Enzyme Biochemistry Department and, in 1956, Chairman of the Enzyme Commission of the International Union of Biochemistry (IUB), which, after five years of work, introduced the EC numbers for enzyme classification in 1961 . Dixon's students included Brigitte A. Askonas , David E. Green and Gregorio Weber .

Awards

1942: Fellow of the Royal Society
1950: Fellow of King's College

Works

Manometric methods as applied to the measurement of cell respiration and other processes. The University Press, Cambridge 1934 (3rd edition 1951).
Multi-enzyme systems. The University Press, Cambridge 1949.
With Edwin C. Webb: Enzymes. Longmans, London 1958 (3rd edition 1979).

literature

RN Perham: Malcolm Dixon. April 18, 1899- December 7, 1985. In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. Vol. 34, 1988, pp. 98-131.
HBF Dixon: Obituary: Malcolm Dixon 1899-1985. In: Trends in Biochemical Sciences. Vol. 11, No. 6, 1986, pp. 243-244, doi : 10.1016 / 0968-0004 (86) 90185-4 .

Web links

Malcolm Dixon: Papers. Janus Project Cambridge, accessed July 13, 2014.

Individual evidence

^ RN Perham: Malcolm Dixon. April 18, 1899- December 7, 1985. In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. Vol. 34, 1988, pp. 98-131, here pp. 98-104.
^ RN Perham: Malcolm Dixon. April 18, 1899- December 7, 1985. In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. Vol. 34, 1988, pp. 98-131, here p. 105.
^ RN Perham: Malcolm Dixon. April 18, 1899- December 7, 1985. In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. Vol. 34, 1988, pp. 98-131, here pp. 115-128.
^ RN Perham: Malcolm Dixon. April 18, 1899- December 7, 1985. In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. Vol. 34, 1988, pp. 98-131, here pp. 109-112.

personal data
SURNAME	Dixon, Malcolm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 18, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cambridge
DATE OF DEATH	7th December 1985
Place of death	Cambridge

[1] RN Perham: Malcolm Dixon. April 18, 1899- December 7, 1985. In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. Vol. 34, 1988, pp. 98-131, here pp. 98-104.

[2] RN Perham: Malcolm Dixon. April 18, 1899- December 7, 1985. In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. Vol. 34, 1988, pp. 98-131, here p. 105.

[3] RN Perham: Malcolm Dixon. April 18, 1899- December 7, 1985. In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. Vol. 34, 1988, pp. 98-131, here pp. 115-128.

[4] RN Perham: Malcolm Dixon. April 18, 1899- December 7, 1985. In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. Vol. 34, 1988, pp. 98-131, here pp. 109-112.