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Alan Fersht, the Glossary

Sir Alan Roy Fersht (born 21 April 1943) is a British chemist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, and an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.^[1]

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Bijvoet Medal recipients
English biophysicists
Members of the University of Cambridge Department of Chemistry
People educated at Sir George Monoux College

Aarhus University

Aarhus University (Aarhus Universitet, abbreviated AU) is a public research university with its main campus located in Aarhus, Denmark.

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Academia Europaea

The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences.

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Accademia dei Lincei

The (literally the "Academy of the Lynx-Eyed"), anglicised as the Lincean Academy, is one of the oldest and most prestigious European scientific institutions, located at the Palazzo Corsini on the Via della Lungara in Rome, Italy.

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Ada Yonath

Ada E. Yonath (עדה יונת,; born 22 June 1939) is an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate in Chemistry, best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes. Alan Fersht and Ada Yonath are Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, Jewish chemists and members of the European Molecular Biology Organization.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.

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American Cancer Society

The American Cancer Society (ACS) is a nationwide non-profit organization dedicated to eliminating cancer.

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American Chemical Society

The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry.

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American Philosophical Society

The American Philosophical Society (APS) is an American scholarly organization and learned society founded in 1743 in Philadelphia that promotes knowledge in the humanities and natural sciences through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.

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Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase

An aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase (aaRS or ARS), also called tRNA-ligase, is an enzyme that attaches the appropriate amino acid onto its corresponding tRNA.

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Aminoacyl-tRNA

Aminoacyl-tRNA (also aa-tRNA or charged tRNA) is tRNA to which its cognate amino acid is chemically bonded (charged).

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Andreas Matouschek

Andreas Matouschek is a biochemist at The University of Texas at Austin, where he is a professor in the College of Natural Sciences.

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Arthur Kornberg

Arthur Kornberg (March 3, 1918 – October 26, 2007) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for the discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid" together with Spanish biochemist and physician Severo Ochoa of New York University. Alan Fersht and Arthur Kornberg are Jewish chemists and members of the European Molecular Biology Organization.

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Bertil Andersson

Bertil Andersson is a Swedish college administrator and academic who served as the third president of Nanyang Technological University (NTU).

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Bijvoet Centre for Biomolecular Research

The Bijvoet Centre for Biomolecular Research is a research institute at Utrecht University.

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Biochemical Society

The Biochemical Society is a learned society in the United Kingdom in the field of biochemistry, including all the cellular and molecular biosciences.

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Brandeis University

Brandeis University is a private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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Centre for Protein Engineering

The MRC Centre for Protein Engineering (or CPE) was a pioneering research unit in Cambridge, England, with a main focus on the structure, stability and activity of proteins and engineering of antibodies.

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Charles Weissmann

Charles Weissmann (born 14 October 1931) is a Hungarian-Swiss molecular biologist. Alan Fersht and Charles Weissmann are Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Chemical equilibrium

In a chemical reaction, chemical equilibrium is the state in which both the reactants and products are present in concentrations which have no further tendency to change with time, so that there is no observable change in the properties of the system.

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Chemist

A chemist (from Greek chēm(ía) alchemy; replacing chymist from Medieval Latin alchemist) is a graduated scientist trained in the study of chemistry, or an officially enrolled student in the field.

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Chess

Chess is a board game for two players.

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Chris Dobson

Sir Christopher Martin Dobson (8 October 1949 – 8 September 2019) was a British chemist, who was the John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Chemical and Structural Biology in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, and Master of St John's College, Cambridge. Alan Fersht and Chris Dobson are Bijvoet Medal recipients, British chemists, fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom), Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences and members of the University of Cambridge Department of Chemistry.

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Christopher Hum

Sir Christopher Owen Hum (born 27 January 1946) is the former UK Ambassador to the People's Republic of China and Master of a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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Chronometry

Chronometry or horology is the science studying the measurement of time and timekeeping. Chronometry enables the establishment of standard measurements of time, which have applications in a broad range of social and scientific areas. Horology usually refers specifically to the study of mechanical timekeeping devices, while chronometry is broader in scope, also including biological behaviours with respect to time (biochronometry), as well as the dating of geological material (geochronometry).

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Chymotrypsin

Chymotrypsin (chymotrypsins A and B, alpha-chymar ophth, avazyme, chymar, chymotest, enzeon, quimar, quimotrase, alpha-chymar, alpha-chymotrypsin A, alpha-chymotrypsin) is a digestive enzyme component of pancreatic juice acting in the duodenum, where it performs proteolysis, the breakdown of proteins and polypeptides.

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Copley Medal

The Copley Medal is the most prestigious award of the Royal Society, conferred "for sustained, outstanding achievements in any field of science".

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Cyril Hilsum

Cyril Hilsum (born 17 May 1925) is a British physicist and academic. Alan Fersht and Cyril Hilsum are Royal Medal winners.

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Darwin College, Cambridge

Darwin College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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Davy Medal

The Davy Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of London "for an outstandingly important recent discovery in any branch of chemistry".

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Enzyme catalysis

Enzyme catalysis is the increase in the rate of a process by a biological molecule, an "enzyme".

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Federation of European Biochemical Societies

The Federation of the European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) is an international scientific society promoting activities in biochemistry, molecular biology and related research areas in Europe and neighbouring regions.

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Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences

Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) is an award for medical scientists who are judged by the UK Academy of Medical Sciences for the "excellence of their science, their contribution to medicine and society and the range of their achievements". Alan Fersht and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences are fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom).

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Fellow of the Royal Society

Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, and medical science".

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Gabor Medal

The Gabor Medal is one of the medals awarded by the Royal Society for "acknowledged distinction of interdisciplinary work between the life sciences with other disciplines".

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Gilbert N. Lewis

Gilbert Newton Lewis (October 23 or October 25, 1875 – March 23, 1946) was an American physical chemist and a dean of the college of chemistry at University of California, Berkeley.

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Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius, is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.

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Hackney, London

Hackney is a district in East London, England, forming around two-thirds of the area of the modern London Borough of Hackney, to which it gives its name.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Head of college

A head of college or head of house is the head or senior member of a college within a collegiate university.

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Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel.

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Herchel Smith

Herchel Smith (May 6, 1925 – December 20, 2001) was an Anglo-American organic chemist.

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Imperial College London

Imperial College London (Imperial) is a public research university in London, England.

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Isomerization

In chemistry, isomerization or isomerisation is the process in which a molecule, polyatomic ion or molecular fragment is transformed into an isomer with a different chemical structure.

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Jane Clarke (scientist)

Jane Clarke (née Morgan; born 1950) is an English biochemist and academic. Alan Fersht and Jane Clarke (scientist) are fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) and members of the University of Cambridge Department of Chemistry.

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Jean-Marie Lehn

Jean-Marie Lehn (born 30 September 1939) is a French chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen in 1987 for his synthesis of cryptands. Alan Fersht and Jean-Marie Lehn are Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Jesus College, Cambridge

Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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Jim Feast

William James Feast (born 25 June 1938) is a British chemical scientist and academic. Alan Fersht and Jim Feast are British chemists and Royal Medal winners.

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Kaj Ulrik Linderstrøm-Lang

Kaj Ulrik Linderstrøm-Lang (29 November 1896 – 25 May 1959) was a Danish protein scientist, who was the director of the Carlsberg Laboratory from 1939 until his death. Alan Fersht and Kaj Ulrik Linderstrøm-Lang are Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Knight

A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity.

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Knight Bachelor

The title of Knight Bachelor is the basic rank granted to a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not inducted as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry; it is a part of the British honours system.

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List of masters of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

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Malcolm H. Chisholm

Malcolm Harold Chisholm (15 October 1945 – 20 November 2015) was a British inorganic chemist who worked mainly in North America, a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Distinguished University Professor of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at Ohio State University who contributed to the synthesis and structural chemistry of transition metal complexes.

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Max Tishler

Max Tishler (October 30, 1906 – March 18, 1989) was president of Merck Sharp and Dohme Research Laboratories where he led the research teams that synthesized ascorbic acid, riboflavin, cortisone, pyridoxine, pantothenic acid, nicotinamide, methionine, threonine, and tryptophan.

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Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Membership of the National Academy of Sciences is an award granted to scientists that the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the United States judges to have made “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research”.

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In biochemistry, a metabolic pathway is a linked series of chemical reactions occurring within a cell.

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

The Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) is a research institute in Cambridge, England, involved in the revolution in molecular biology which occurred in the 1950–60s.

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National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.

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Nature (journal)

Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.

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Noreen Murray

Noreen Elizabeth, Lady Murray (26 February 1935 – 12 May 2011) was an English molecular geneticist who helped pioneer recombinant DNA technology (genetic engineering) by creating a series of bacteriophage lambda vectors into which genes could be inserted and expressed in order to examine their function.

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Organic chemistry

Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, and reactions of organic compounds and organic materials, i.e., matter in its various forms that contain carbon atoms.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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P53

p53, also known as Tumor protein P53, cellular tumor antigen p53 (UniProt name), or transformation-related protein 53 (TRP53) is a regulatory protein that is often mutated in human cancers.

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PH

In chemistry, pH, also referred to as acidity or basicity, historically denotes "potential of hydrogen" (or "power of hydrogen").

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Phi value analysis

Phi value analysis, \phi analysis, or \phi-value analysis is an experimental protein engineering technique for studying the structure of the folding transition state of small protein domains that fold in a two-state manner.

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Philip Cohen (British biochemist)

Sir Philip Cohen (born 22 July 1945) is a distinguished British biochemist known for his extensive contributions to the field of biochemistry, especially to the understanding of the role of reversible protein phosphorylation in cell regulation. Alan Fersht and Philip Cohen (British biochemist) are fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom), Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, Jewish British scientists, members of the European Molecular Biology Organization and Royal Medal winners.

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Pippa Rogerson

Philippa Jane Rogerson is a British solicitor and academic who has been Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge since 2018.

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Protein engineering

Protein engineering is the process of developing useful or valuable proteins through the design and production of unnatural polypeptides, often by altering amino acid sequences found in nature.

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Protein folding

Protein folding is the physical process by which a protein, after synthesis by a ribosome as a linear chain of amino acids, changes from an unstable random coil into a more ordered three-dimensional structure.

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Research fellow

A research fellow is an academic research position at a university or a similar research institution, usually for academic staff or faculty members.

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Ron Laskey

Ronald Alfred Laskey FLSW (born 26 January 1945) is a British cell biologist and cancer researcher. Alan Fersht and Ron Laskey are fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) and Royal Medal winners.

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Royal Medal

The Royal Medal, also known as The Queen's Medal and The King's Medal (depending on the gender of the monarch at the time of the award), is a silver-gilt medal, of which three are awarded each year by the Royal Society, two for "the most important contributions to the advancement of natural knowledge" and one for "distinguished contributions in the applied sciences", done within the Commonwealth of Nations.

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Royal Society

The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences.

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Royal Society of Chemistry

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society and professional association in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemical sciences".

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Single-sex education

Single-sex education, also known as single-gender education and gender-isolated education, is the practice of conducting education with male and female students attending separate classes, perhaps in separate buildings or schools.

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Sir George Monoux College

Sir George Monoux College is a sixth form college located in Walthamstow, London.

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Sophie E. Jackson

Sophie Elizabeth Jackson is a British biochemist and Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of Cambridge.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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State Scholarship (UK)

A State Scholarship was a financial scholarship award for British university entrants based on scholarship level exam results.

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Stopped-flow

Stopped-flow is an experimental technique for studying chemical reactions with a half time of the order of 1 ms, introduced by Britton Chance and extended by Quentin Gibson (Other techniques, such as the temperature-jump method, are available for much faster processes.).

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Tetrahedron

In geometry, a tetrahedron (tetrahedra or tetrahedrons), also known as a triangular pyramid, is a polyhedron composed of four triangular faces, six straight edges, and four vertices.

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Thermodynamics

Thermodynamics is a branch of physics that deals with heat, work, and temperature, and their relation to energy, entropy, and the physical properties of matter and radiation.

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Tomas Lindahl

Tomas Robert Lindahl FRS FMedSci (born 28 January 1938) is a Swedish-British scientist specialising in cancer research. Alan Fersht and Tomas Lindahl are fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom), Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, Recipients of the Copley Medal and Royal Medal winners.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.

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Uppsala University

Uppsala University (UU) (Uppsala universitet) is a public research university in Uppsala, Sweden.

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Utrecht University

Utrecht University (UU; Universiteit Utrecht, formerly Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht) is a public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands.

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Vrije Universiteit Brussel

The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (abbreviated VUB) is a Dutch and English-speaking research university located in Brussels, Belgium.

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Walthamstow

Walthamstow is a town in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, around north-east of Central London.

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Weizmann Institute of Science

The Weizmann Institute of Science (מכון ויצמן למדע Machon Weizmann LeMada) is a public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, fourteen years before the State of Israel was founded.

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Wildlife photography

Wildlife photography is a genre of photography concerned with documenting various forms of wildlife in their natural habitat.

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Wilhelm Exner Medal

The Wilhelm Exner Medal has been awarded by the Austrian Industry Association, (ÖGV), for excellence in research and science since 1921.

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William Jencks

William Platt Jencks (August 15, 1927 – January 3, 2007) was an American biochemist.

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Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

The Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry is the University of Cambridge's chemistry department.

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Zdeněk P. Bažant

Zdeněk Pavel Bažant (born December 10, 1937) is McCormick School Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil Engineering and Materials Science in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University's Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Fersht

Also known as A.R. Fersht, Alan R. Fersht, Alan Roy Fersht, Fersht, Sir Alan Fersht, Sir Alan R. Fersht, Sir Alan Roy Fersht.

, List of masters of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Malcolm H. Chisholm, Max Tishler, Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Metabolic pathway, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences, Nature (journal), Noreen Murray, Organic chemistry, Oxford University Press, P53, PH, Phi value analysis, Philip Cohen (British biochemist), Pippa Rogerson, Protein engineering, Protein folding, Research fellow, Ron Laskey, Royal Medal, Royal Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, Single-sex education, Sir George Monoux College, Sophie E. Jackson, Stanford University, State Scholarship (UK), Stopped-flow, Tetrahedron, Thermodynamics, Tomas Lindahl, University of California, Berkeley, University of Cambridge, Uppsala University, Utrecht University, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Walthamstow, Weizmann Institute of Science, Wildlife photography, Wilhelm Exner Medal, William Jencks, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, Zdeněk P. Bažant.

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See also

Bijvoet Medal recipients

English biophysicists

Members of the University of Cambridge Department of Chemistry

People educated at Sir George Monoux College

References