Alan R. Battersby

Sir Alan Rushton Battersby FRS (b. 1925) is a retired organic chemist known for his work on the genetic blueprint, structure, and synthetic pathway of Cyanocobalamin. This came in collaboration with a partner and also in relation to work on plant alkaloids. He won the Copley Medal in 2000 and has also won other awards.

Birth and academic career

Alan R. Battersby was born in 1925 in the United Kingdom. He is a Professor at Cambridge University.

Research

Alan R. Battersby is know for his research on the biosynthesis of the 'pigments of life' haem, chlorophyll and vitamin B12, that are built on closely related tetrapyrrolic structural frameworks. Alan Battersby has demonstrated and elucidated the essential role played by two enzymes, deaminase and cosynthetase, in the construction of the tetrapyrrolic ring with its specific structural features.

He was awarded the Wolf Prize in Chemistry along with Duilio Arigoni of ETH Zurich in 1989 for "their fundamental contributions to the elucidation of the mechanism of enzymic reactions and of the biosynthesis of natural products, in particular the pigments of life".^[1]

Notes

^ The Wolf Prize in Chemistry

References

Leonard, Nelson J. (2006). More than a Memoir. Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris Corporation. ISBN 1-599-26791-8. OCLC 70668216.
Milgrom, Lionel R. (1997). The Colours of Life: an Introduction to the Chemistry of Porphyrins and Related Compounds. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-198-55380-3. OCLC 35172533.
University of Cambridge Office of Communications (2000-06-07). Lifetime Achievement Award for Cambridge Chemist. News and Events. University of Cambridge. Retrieved on 2007-09-01.

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Wolf Prize in Chemistry Laureates

Carl Djerassi (1978) • Herman Mark (1979) • Henry Eyring (1980) • Joseph Chatt (1981) • John Charles Polanyi / George C. Pimentel (1982) • Herbert S. Gutowsky / Harden M. McConnell / John S. Waugh (1983) • Rudolph A. Marcus (1984) • Elias James Corey / Albert Eschenmoser (1986) • David C. Phillips / David Blow (1987) • Joshua Jortner / Raphael David Levine (1988) • Duilio Arigoni / Alan R. Battersby (1989) • Richard R. Ernst / Alexander Pines (1991) • John Pople (1992) • Ahmed Zewail (1993) • Richard Lerner / Peter Schultz (1994) • Gilbert Stork / Samuel J. Danishefsky (1995) • Gerhard Ertl / Gabor A. Somorjai (1998) • Raymond Lemieux (1999) • F. Albert Cotton (2000) • Henri B. Kagan / Ryoji Noyori / K. Barry Sharpless (2001) • Harry B. Gray (2004) • Richard Zare (2005) • Ada Yonath / George Feher (2006)

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