Stanley Peat
Stanley Peat (born August 23, 1902 in South Shields near Newcastle-upon-Tyne , † February 22, 1969 in Bangor (Wales) ) was a British chemist, known for contributions to the chemistry of carbohydrates .
Peat was the son of a mining engineer and studied chemistry from 1921 at Armstrong College in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (today's University of Durham ) with a bachelor's degree with top marks in 1924. He was a student of Walter Norman Haworth and went with him as an assistant 1925 at the University of Birmingham . In 1928 he received his doctorate from Haworth and was lecturer for biochemistry at the Medical School of the University of Birmingham, where he dealt with histamine , among other things . In 1934 he moved to the Faculty of Chemistry, where he became a reader and in 1946 received a D.Sc. In 1948 he became professor of chemistry at the University College of North Wales at Bangor.
Among other things, he dealt with the enzyme system that produces and breaks down starch. He clarified the structure of the starch component amylopectin . He clarified the structure of glucosamine through synthesis and he dealt with the structure of glucose (with Haworth 1926), maltose , dextrins and dextrans .
In 1948 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society .
He was Associate Editor of Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry.
literature
- Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 337
- Edmund Hirst, JR Turvey, Biographical Memoirs Fellows Royal Society, Volume 16, 1970, pp. 441-462
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peat, Stanley |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | South Shields |
| DATE OF DEATH | 22nd February 1969 |
| Place of death | Bangor (Wales) |