Asher Korner Explained

Birth Date:1929 2, df=yes

Asher Korner (7 February 1929 – 22 September 1971) was a British biochemist.[1] [2]

Education

Korner was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained his PhD in 1957.[3]

Career and research

Korner became Director of Studies in Biochemistry at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was made a fellow in 1960 and served as a lecturer from 1960 to 1967.[4] During this time, Korner supervised the PhD of the future Nobel laureate Tim Hunt.[5] [6] In 1967, Korner moved to the University of Sussex,[7] [8] [9] where he became the university's first professor of biochemistry.

Awards and honours

Korner is commemorated at the University of Sussex through the Korner Travelling Fellowship Fund.[10]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Obituary of Asher Korner, for The Times 1p typescript. | The National Archives . Discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk . 2016-12-21.
  2. Web site: John. Maynard Smith. John Maynard Smith. Asher Korner obituary (in FOCUS - the magazine of the university of sussex. sussex.ac.uk. 1971.
  3. Web site: Chemistry Tree - Asher Korner Details . Academictree.org . 2016-12-21.
  4. Earl. Dcn. Korner. A. The Isolation and Properties of Cardiac Ribosomes and Polysomes. Biochemical Journal. 94. 3. 1965. 721–734. 14340064. 10.1042/bj0940721. 1206608.
  5. PhD . Richard Timothy. Hunt . The synthesis of haemoglobin . University of Cambridge . 1969 . 885437139.
  6. Web site: Nobel Prizes — Department of Biochemistry . Bioc.cam.ac.uk . 1933-04-02 . 2016-12-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161215121750/http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/about/history/nobel-prizes . 15 December 2016 . dead .
  7. Mathews. Michael B.. Korner. Asher. Mammalian Cell-Free Protein Synthesis Directed by Viral Ribonucleic Acid. European Journal of Biochemistry. 17. 2. 1970. 328–338. 5500401. 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1970.tb01170.x. free.
  8. Korner. A.. Hormonal Control of Protein Synthesis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 176. 1044. 1970. 287–290. Royal Society. London. 10.1098/rspb.1970.0047. 4395099 . 1970RSPSB.176..287K . 45945640 .
  9. Korner. Asher. The hormonal control of protein synthesis. Biochemical Journal. 115. 5. 1969. 30P.2–31P. 1185261. 10.1042/bj1150030Pb. 4311815.
  10. Web site: Korner Travelling Fellowship Fund. 2015-12-26.

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