Hirst, Edmund

Edmund Langley Hirst (1898-1975), M. Stacey and E. Percival, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 22 (1976) 137-168. 

Hirst, Sir Edmund Langley (1898-1975), M. Stacey, The Dictionary of National Biography 1971 -SO, Oxford University Press, (1986) 411. 

Hirst, E. L., and Ross, A. G., [Obituary of] Edmund George Vincent Percival, X, xiii-xx... 

A. B. Foster Sir Edmund Hirst J. K. N. Jones Maurice Stacey... 

Laurens Anderson Allan B. Foster Dexter French Sir Edmund Hirst J. Kenyon N. Jones... 

Sib Edmund Hirst Stanley Peat Maurice Stacey... 

During this period, Ken supervised the laboratory work at the University, thereby enabling Edmund Hirst to attend to Governmental activities. Under Ken Jones s leadership, the team, over a period of six years, made a very significant contribution to the war effort, but, because of the nature of the work, received very little publicity. Despite the personal cost to himself, Ken adhered rigidly to the terms of the Official Secrets Act. 

In 1948, Edmund Hirst moved to Edinburgh University, and Ken returned to Bristol University as Reader in Organic Chemistry. At Bristol, Ken rapidly developed his own carbohydrate-research group and, with great foresight, impressed upon his colleagues the need to apply biochemical methods to the study of natural products, a point of view fully shared by his brilliant assistant (later Professor) Leslie Hough. 

The following is a chronological list of the scientific publications of Sir Edmund Hirst and his colleagues. 

Edmund George Vincent Percival, 1907-1951, E. L. Hirst and A. G. Ross, Adv. Carbohydr. Chem. 10, xiii (1955). 

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