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T his paper reviews some recent work, mainly carried out in the laboratories of Birkbeck College, on the conversion of normal sugars into deoxy sugars via glycopyranosiduloses or unsaturated sugars as intermediates. 

Needham, Joseph. The refiner s fire the enigma of alchemy in East and West the second J. D. Bernal lecture, delivered at Birkbeck College, London, 4th February 1971. London Birkbeck College, 1971. 31p. ISBN 0-900975-12-1... 

School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Birkbeck College, London, UK... 

Graeme Card Department of Crystallography Birkbeck College London, England... 

Professor Peter J. Sadler, Birkbeck College, Department of Chemistry, University of London, London WCIE 7HX. Great Britain... 

Def rtment of Crystallc raphy, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WCIE 7HX, England Science and Engineering Research Council, Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire WA4 4AD, En and... 

Institute of Structural Molecular Biology, University College London and Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, United Kingdom... 

Professor Donald Bradley was born on 7 November 1924. He received his university education at Birkbeck College (University of London, UK) where he obtained the B.Sc. (1st Class Honors in Chemistry, 1946), Ph.D. (Physical Inorganic Chemistry, 1950) and D.Se. (1959) degrees. 

His academic career started at Birkbeck College where he was Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry from 1949 to 1959. His first professorial appointment was at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, from 1959 to 1965. In 1965 he was appointed to the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at Queen Mary College, London, UK, and served as Head of Department from 1979 to 1983. Since 1965 he has served on many committees at Queen Mary College and the University of London and has also played an active role in the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 1987 Professor Bradley was made Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry of the University of London and became a Fellow of Queen Mary College in 1988. 

Because Franklin and Wilkins were hardly speaking to each other, Franklin left King s College in 1953 for Birkbeck College, also in London, where she finished her DNA work and became head of the team studying tobacco mosaic virus. Franklin died of ovarian cancer on April 16, 1958, at the age of 37. see also Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Double Helix Pauling, Linus Watson, James Dewey. 

Another researcher in Ramsay s group at UCL was Katherine Alice Burke.10 Bom in Surrey about 1875, Burke obtained her B.Sc. (London) degree from studies at Bedford College and later Birkbeck College, a small college emphasising technical and vocational subjects. Upon completion of a B.Sc. in 1899, she transferred to UCL to work in Ramsay s laboratory under Frederick Donnan.11 Burke had two publications with Donnan and one with Edward Charles Cyril Baly.12 In addition, she... 

The second woman to teach in the Chemistry Department of IC was Margaret Carlton.78 Carlton had commenced her education at Birkbeck College before transferring to Imperial College, where she completed her B.Sc. in 1919 and her Ph.D. in 1925. 

Under Greenish and T. E. Wallis, Hooper performed research on natural products, presenting some of her work at the 1905 British Pharmaceutical Conference. During the same time period, she was a demonstrator at the Pharmaceutical Society s School of Pharmacy, while in the evenings she studied towards a B.Sc. in botany and chemistry at Birkbeck College. 

I thank Heather Baker, Catherine Day, Rob Evans, Peter Lindley, Clyde Smith, John Tweedie, and Harmon Zuccola for access to their unpublished data Clyde Smith for help with illustrations and Heather Baker and Andrew Brodie for their critical reading of the manuscript. I owe a particular debt to Peter Lindley, Rob Evans, and members of the Birkbeck College transferrin group for the free and rewarding collaborative interactions we have always had and to Phil Aisen for being a constant source of inspiration to all in the transferrin field. 

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