Mark H. Richmond

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Sir Mark Henry Richmond (born February 1, 1931 in Sydney ) is a British microbiologist .

Richmond studied at Clare College of Cambridge University and was 1958 to 1965, scientists at the Medical Research Council. From 1965 he was reader in molecular biology at the University of Edinburgh and from 1968 to 1981 professor of bacteriology at the University of Bristol . 1981 to 1990 he was Professor of Molecular Bacteriology and Vice Chancellor of the University of Manchester . From 1990 to 1994 he was chairman of the British Science and Engineering Research Council. From 1993 to 1996 he was Head of Global Research at Glaxo (Group Head of Research). From 1999 he was on the Council of Cytos Biotechnology.

Richmond studied how bacteria develop antibiotic resistance , particularly via β-lactamases (which Richmond and Richard Sykes classified in Gram-negative bacteria), and how resistance is passed between bacteria. In 1970 he showed with Sykes the transmission of the widespread Enterobacterium E. coli to another bacterial species ( Pseudomonas aeruginosa ).

In 1976 he received the Robert Koch Prize . In 1980 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1986 he was knighted as a Knight Bachelor .

From 1996 to 2001 he was on the International Science Advisory Committee of UNESCO .

His hobbies are gardening, hiking and opera. From his first marriage (divorced in 1958) he has a son and two daughters. In 2000 he married a second time.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mark Richmond, Richard Sykes: The beta lactamases of gram negative bacteria and their possible physiological role. In: AH Rose, DW Tempest: Advances in Microbiological Physiology. Volume 9, 1973, pp. 31-88. Richmond on this in Science Citation Classics, pdf
  2. ^ Richard Sykes, Mark Richmond: The intergeneric transfer of a beta-lactamase gene between Pseudomonas aeruginosa and E. coli. In: Nature. Volume 226, 1970, p. 952.
  3. ↑ Knights and Dames at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
personal data
SURNAME Richmond, Mark H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richmond, Mark Henry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British microbiologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney