Bill Rutherford Explained

Bill Rutherford
Birth Name:Alfred William Rutherford
Birth Date:1955 1, df=yes
Birth Place:Morpeth, Northumberland
Thesis Title:Electron paramagnetic resonance studies of photosynthetic electron transport in purple bacteria
Thesis Url:http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3010073
Thesis Year:1979
Doctoral Advisor:Michael C.W. Evans

Alfred William Rutherford is Professor and Chair in Biochemistry of Solar energy in the Department of Life sciences at Imperial College London.

Education

Rutherford was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School for Boys, Morpeth and the University of Liverpool where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry in 1976. He moved to University College London (UCL) where he was awarded a PhD in 1979 for electron paramagnetic resonance studies of photosynthetic electron transport in purple bacteria[1] [2] [3] [4] supervised by Michael C.W. Evans.

Research

Rutherford's research[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] investigates:

Rutherford's research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC),[12] the Wolfson Foundation and the Royal Society.[13]

Awards and honours

Rutherford was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014. His nomination reads:

Rutherford has also been awarded the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, the Médaille d'argent of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in 2001 and was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2001.[14] On 25 January 2013 Rutherford received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University, Sweden.[15]

Personal life

Rutherford is a musician and has been a member of The Baskervilles Blues Band[16] [17] and Baskerville Willy.[18]

Notes and References

  1. 10.1016/0014-5793(79)80357-9. A high potential semiquinone-iron type EPR signal in Rhodopseudomonas viridis. FEBS Letters. 100. 2. 305–308. 1979. Rutherford . A. W. . Evans . M. C. W. . 83568090. free. 1979FEBSL.100..305R.
  2. 10.1016/0014-5793(79)80820-0. The high potential semiquinone-iron signal in Rhodopseudomonas viridis is the specific quinone secondary electron acceptor in the photosynthetic reaction centre. FEBS Letters. 104. 2. 227–230. 1979. Rutherford . A. W. . Evans . M. C. W. . 84417573. free. 1979FEBSL.104..227R.
  3. 228655. 1161333. 1979. Rutherford. A. W.. Electron-paramagnetic-resonance measurements of the electron-transfer components of the reaction centre of Rhodopseudomonas viridis. Oxidation—reduction potentials and interactions of the electron acceptors. The Biochemical Journal. 182. 2. 515–23. Heathcote. P. Evans. M. C. . 10.1042/bj1820515.
  4. PhD . Aflred William. Rutherford . Electron paramagnetic resonance studies of photosynthetic electron transport in purple bacteria . london.ac.uk. . 1979 . 500554060. Bill Rutherford.
  5. 10387064. 1999. Hanley. J. Carotenoid oxidation in photosystem II. Biochemistry. 38. 26. 8189–95. Deligiannakis. Y. Pascal. A. Faller. P. Rutherford. A. W.. 10.1021/bi990633u.
  6. 10.1021/ja00148a013. G-Values as a Probe of the Local Protein Environment: High-Field EPR of Tyrosyl Radicals in Ribonucleotide Reductase and Photosystem II. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 117. 43. 10713–10719. 1995. Un . S. . Atta . M. . Fontecave . M. . Rutherford . A. W. .
  7. 2669240. 1989. Rutherford. A. W.. Bill Rutherford. Photosystem II, the water-splitting enzyme. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 14. 6. 227–32 . 10.1016/0968-0004(89)90032-7.
  8. 11701322. 2001. Rutherford. A. W.. Herbicide-induced oxidative stress in photosystem II. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 26. 11. 648–53. Krieger-Liszkay. A . 10.1016/s0968-0004(01)01953-3.
  9. 2557913. 1989. Boussac. A. EPR signals from modified charge accumulation states of the oxygen evolving enzyme in Ca2+-deficient photosystem II. Biochemistry. 28. 23. 8984–9. Zimmermann. J. L.. Rutherford. A. W. . 10.1021/bi00449a005.
  10. 10.1016/j.bbabio.2011.07.012. 21835158. Charge separation in Photosystem II: A comparative and evolutionary overview. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1817. 1. 26–43. 2012. Cardona . T. . Sedoud . A. . Cox . N. . Rutherford . A. W. . free.
  11. 10.1515/green-2013-0007. Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels – an Evolving Research Field within AMPEA, a Joint Programme of the European Energy Research Alliance. Green. 3. 2013. Thapper . A. . Styring . S. R. . Saracco . G. . Rutherford . A. W. . Robert . B. . Magnuson . A. . Lubitz . W. . Llobet . A. . Kurz . P. . Holzwarth . A. . Fiechter . S. . De Groot . H. . Campagna . S. . Braun . A. . Bercegol . H. . Artero . V. . free . 1887/3422631 . free .
  12. Web site: UK Government research grants awarded to Alfred William Rutherford. Anon. 2014. Swindon. rcuk.ac.uk. Research Councils UK. https://web.archive.org/web/20170314152113/http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/person/0C2FCFB0-48FB-482D-9B7A-199F64ED871F. 2017-03-14.
  13. Faunce. Thomas A.. Wolfgang Lubitz. Lubitz. Wolfgang. Rutherford. A. W. (Bill). MacFarlane. Douglas. Moore. Gary F.. Yang. Peidong. Nocera. Daniel G.. Moore. Tom A.. Gregory. Duncan H.. Fukuzumi. Shunichi. Yoon. Kyung Byung. Armstrong. Fraser A.. Wasielewski. Michael R.. Styring. Stenbjorn. Energy and environment policy case for a global project on artificial photosynthesis. Energy & Environmental Science. 6. 3. 2013. 695. 1754-5692. 10.1039/c3ee00063j.
  14. Web site: Professor Bill Rutherford, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences. Imperial College London. Bill. Rutherford. 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20170314152713/http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.rutherford. 2017-03-14.
  15. Web site: New honorary doctorates in science and technology – Uppsala University, Sweden. uu.se. 2016-02-03.
  16. Book: 0748404163 . Biochemists' Song Book . Baum . Harold . 1995 . CRC Press . 191661780. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304125101/http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofBiologicalSciences/People/DrAGalkin/Bioenergetics/TheBiochemistsSongbook/. 2016-03-04. qub.ac.uk .
  17. Web site: Baskervilles Blues Band. baskervillesbluesband.com. Anon. 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20170314152743/http://baskervillesbluesband.com/. 2017-03-14.
  18. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20150810163400/http://baskervillewilly.com/band.php . 2015-08-10 . Baskerville Willy: the Blues, but not as we know it . baskervillewilly.com . Anon . 2015 . dead .

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