Alan R. Battersby

Alan Rushton Battersby ( born March 4, 1925 in Leigh, United Kingdom ) is a British chemist.

Life

Battersby studied at the University of Manchester where in 1943 he earned a bachelor's degree in 1947 and his master's degree. In 1949 he received his doctorate at the University of St. Andrews, where he was a Lecturer from 1948 to 1953. After that, he was a lecturer at Bristol University and from 1962 to 1969 professor at Liverpool University. He was since 1969 Professor of Organic Chemistry at Cambridge (St. Catherine 's College ). In 1992, he went into retirement.

Battersby is known for his work on the elucidation of the structure and the complicated biological synthesis of biomolecules such as hemes, chlorophyll and vitamin B12 ( cyanocobalamin ) as well as various groups of plant alkaloids such as morphine to.

The Royal Society of Chemistry awarded him the 1959 Corday - Morgan Medal. 2000 he received the Welch Award with Ian Scott. In 1989 he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Chemistry with Duilio Arigoni for the elucidation of the biosynthesis of the " pigments of life" malice, chlorophyll and vitamin B, which are based on similar tetrapyrrole structures. He was knighted in 1992.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Copley Medal in 2000 he and the Royal Medal he received in 1989. In 1978 he received the Davy Medal, 1986 International Antonio Feltrinelli Prize - 1987 the Adolf Windaus Medal of the German Chemical Society, and in 2000 the Welch Award among many other awards. He is a member of the Leopoldina since 1967.

In 1962, he received a D. Sc. Bristol University and a 1973 Sc. D. of the University of Cambridge. He is a multiple honorary doctorates (Sheffield, Bristol, Liverpool, Rockefeller University, St. Andrews ).

He was married since 1949 and has two sons from the marriage.

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