Richard Perham Explained

Richard Perham
Honorific Suffix:	FRS FMedSci
Birth Name:	Richard Nelson Perham
Birth Date:	1937 4, df=yes
Birth Place:	Brentford, Middlesex, England
Death Place:	Cambridge, England
Field:	Biochemistry
Work Institution:	St John's College, Cambridge Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge; MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Alma Mater:	University of Cambridge
Doctoral Students:	Nigel Scrutton^[1]

Richard Nelson Perham, FRS, FMedSci, FRSA (27 April 1937 – 14 February 2015), was Professor of biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, and Master of St John's College, Cambridge 2004–07.^{[2] [3]} He was also editor-in-chief of FEBS Journal (Federation of European Biochemical Societies) from 1998 to 2013.^{[4] [5]}

Education

Perham attended Latymer Upper School, then St John's College, Cambridge, where he completed his MA (Cantab), PhD and ScD.^[6] Perham then went on to become a MRC scholar at Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), also at Cambridge.^[7]

Research and career

Perham was known for his contributions to the chemistry of proteins in multimeric assemblies.^{[8] [9]}

Societies

Perham was a member of the following organisations and societies:

• 1965 Biochemical Society member
• 1983 EMBO Member
• 1986 Royal Institution for Great Britain member
• 1992 Academia Europaea member

Awards and fellowships

His awards include:

• 1971 (EMBO) fellowship Max Planck Institute for Medical Research (Max-Planck-Institut für Medizinische Forschung), Heidelberg
• 1984 Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)^[10]
  • 1988 Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) 1993 Max Planck Research Prize
• 1998 Novartis Medal and Prize of the Biochemical Society
• 2000 Silver Medal of the Italian Biochemical Society
• 2005 Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci)
• 2008 Edman Prize International Association of Protein Structure and Proteomics (IAPSAP)
• 2011 Diplôme d'Honneur of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies

Selected bibliography

• Book: Perham, Richard N . Instrumentation in amino acid sequence analysis . Academic Press . London New York . 1975 . 978-0-12-551250-3 .
• Book: Perham . Richard N . Chapman . Stephen . Scrutton . Nigel . Flavins and flavoproteins 2002: proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium, St. John's College, University of Cambridge, UK, July 14–18, 2002 . Rudolf Weber, Agency for Scientific Publications . Berlin . 2002 . 978-3-00-010229-5 .
• Book: Perham . Richard N . Baumeister . Wolfgang . Johnson . Louise . Steven . Alasdair . Instrumentation in amino acid sequence analysis . Academic Press . London New York . 1975 . 978-0-12-551250-3 .

Personal life

Perham was married to Canadian cell biologist Nancy Lane Perham, and they had two children together.

Notes and References

1. PhD. University of Cambridge. Mechanistic and structural studies on glutathione reductase by protein engineering. Nigel Shaun. Scrutton. 1988. 557267794.
2. Web site: Richard Nelson PERHAM – Biography. Debretts. 22 April 2014.
3. Web site: Fellow – Professor Richard Perham FRS FMedSci. The Academy of Medical Sciences. 22 April 2014.
4. http://www.acmedsci.ac.uk/fellows/fellows-directory/ordinary-fellows/professor-richard-perham/ Profile: Professor Richard Perham FRS FMedSci
5. http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/6481/Richard-Nelson-PERHAM Profile: Richard Nelson Perham
6. Web site: Professor Richard Nelson Perham ScD FRS FMedSci, 1937–2015 StJohns. 2021-03-27. www.joh.cam.ac.uk.
7. News: Professor Richard Perham 1937–2015. joh.cam.ac.uk. 16 February 2015.
8. Martin. Seamus J. Editorial – The FEBS Journal: passing the editorial baton. The FEBS Journal. January 2014. 281. 1. 1–2. 10.1111/febs.12650. 2262/75314. 83822402. free.
9. Parham. Peter. Editorial - R. N. Perham at the helm: 1998–2013. The FEBS Journal. December 2013. 280. 24. 6279. 10.1111/febs.12585. free.
10. Berry, Alan; Radford, Sheena E. (2018). "Richard Nelson Perham. 27 April 1937–14 February 2015". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society.