Richard de Badew and the University of Cambridge 1315-1340. (Presentation copy of the First Edition, inscribed by Chibnall -- a noted biochemist -- to another one, John Edsall.)

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Presentation copy of the First Edition, inscribed by Chibnall -- a noted biochemist -- to another one, John Edsall: 'With best wishes to John Edsall/Fulbright Visiting Professor/at the College in 1952/A. C. Chibnall/December 1963'. Frontispiece, xvi, 48 pp. Original cloth. Very Good+, without dust jacket. 'In 1943 A.C. Chibnall succeeded F.G. Hopkins as Professor of Biochemistry at Cambridge and I joined his research group working on proteins and, in particular, insulin. This was an especially exciting time in protein chemistry. New fractionation techniques had been developed, particularly by A.J.P. Martin and his colleagues, and there seemed to be a real possibility of determining the exact chemical structure of these fundamental components of living matter. I succeeded in developing new methods for amino acid sequencing and used them to deduce the complete sequence of insulin, for which I was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1958' (Frederick Sanger, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1980, in his 'Autobiography' on the Nobel Foundation Web site). Chiball gave the 1938 Silliman Lectures at Yale (published in 1939 as Protein metabolism in the plant) and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. While at Cambridge, Edsall gave the Sixth Spiers Memorial Lecture: The molecular shapes of certain proteins and some of their interactions with other substances (published in Discussions of the Faraday Society, 1953, 13, 9-28). N° de ref. del artículo 16986

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