Harington, Charles

Henley s research supervisor was Charles Harington,38 and he proved to be just the sort of mentor that Henley needed. 

Himsworth, H. and Pitt-Rivers, R. (1972). Charles Robert Harington, 1897-1972. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 18 266—308. 

In 1926, he took up the appointments of Biochemist to the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, and Lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Edinburgh. Such a joint appointment was, at the time, an unusual phenomenon, for his predecessor at the Royal Infirmary, Charles Harington, did not, in fact, hold a University appointment. Dr. Stewart gradually became a full-time clinical chemist and taught medical as well as science students. 

Current Commission. The International Commission on the Nomenclature of Biological Chemistry is at present composed of chairman, J. Murray-Luck, Stanford University, Calif. E. Cherbuliez, Geneva, Switzerland J. E. Courtois, Paris, France, who acts as recording secretary A. H. Ennor, Melbourne, Australia Sir Charles Harington, London, England B. C. P. Jansen, Amsterdam, Holland G. F. Marrian, Edinburgh, Scotland Byron Biegel, Evanston, 111. and A. Rossi-Fanelli, Rome, Italy. 

At the incentive of Chibnall (4), the editorial boards of the Journal of the Chemical Society of London and the Biochemical Journal worked out a first project, after consulting numerous biochemists of Great Britain and of other countries. This first text (14) made it possible for Sir Charles Harington to submit a project on amino acid nomenclature to the commission in July 1947 at the conference of London. At the same time, the commission considered a second project, worked out by the commission for nomenclature of the American Chemical Society and the editorial board of the Journal of Biological Chemistry (12). 

The commission accepted the British project as a basis for discussion. These two projects had many points in common but they also contained some rather substantial differences. The most important of these differences were gradually settled between 1947 and 1949, through the continuous efforts of A. M. Patterson, H. B. Vickery, and Sir Charles Harington. 

In 1915, Edward Kendall (1886-1972) was the first to isolate thyroxine from the thyroid glands of pigs (Fig. 6.22). [82] From 3,000 kilograms of thyroid glands he obtained by alkaline hydrolysis 33 grams of pure thyroxine. In 1926/27, Sir Charles R. Harington (1897-1972) elucidated the structure of thyroxine, and in 1950, Rosalind Pitt-Rivers (1907-1990) and Jean Roche (1901-1992) simultaneously discovered that by comparison with thyroxine, 3,3 ,5-triiodothyronine was five times more active (Fig. 6.23). 

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