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Fellow at St John s College and was awarded the Humphreys Research prize. At Cambridge, Nigel was a Research Fellow of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 and Royal Society University Research Fellow. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1997. Aged 36, Nigel is now Professor at Leicester University and Lister Institute Research Fellow. He is a recipient of the Colworth Medal of the Biochemical Society. His scientific interests include mechanistic and quantum enzymology his recreational interests include Victorian and College philately. 

Casimir Funk had come from Poland to the Lister Institute in London, England to investigate the chemical nature of the substance in rice-polishings (rice bran) that cured or prevented polyneuritis in birds, a disease closely related to beri-beri in humans. His research in this subject coupled with his awareness of what were becoming known as diet-related diseases, the deficiency diseases, led to his review article of 1912 in which he coined the term, vitamine. Vitamine, to Funk, was actually a variety of chemical substances, organic amines, that acted selective-... 

Experimental Medicine in St. Petersburg in 1890, and the Kitasato Institute in Tokyo in 1892-3, commemorating von Behring s discovery, with Kitsato, of diphtheria antitoxin. In New York, the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research was incorporated in 1901 and in London the Lister Institute for Medical Research was established by 1903. 

Acknowledgments. We gratefully acknowledge the UK Science and Engineering Research Council, the Lister Institute, the Wellcome Trust and Tripos Associates Inc. for hardware and support. PJA is a Royal Society University Research Fellow. The Krebs Institute is a designated centre of the SERC Biomolecular Science. We are very grateful to Andrew Brint, Eleanor Mitchell, Helen Grindley, Elizabeth Ujah, Julie Park, Kiran Kumar and Amanda Mackenzie, all of whom have made contributions to this work. 

J. H. Lister, Institute of Cancer Research, Royal Cancer Hospital,... 

Smedley embarked on a career change in 1910 that was to gain her more recognition. Awarded a Beit Research Fellowship, she returned to London to take up a position at the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, where she remained for the rest of her working life. Her field of study was that of fat metabolism... 

In 1905, she applied for a Jenner Memorial Research Studentship at the Lister Institute. The application caused a furore as no women had previously been given this award ... 

In Britain, many women chemists veered towards biochemistry for their careers, joining such organisations as the Lister Institute, London (see Chap. 2), and the Rowett Institute in Aberdeen (see Chap. 7). Nevertheless, it was the Cambridge... 

From 1922 to 1926, Hoffert was a Research Assistant to Ida Smedley (see Chap. 2) at the Lister Institute and during that 4-year period, she co-authored four publications with Smedley on carbohydrate and fat metabolism. In addition, she published two papers under her own name, one in Chemistry and Industry... 

Acknowledgments. Some of the work deseribed in this review was performed in the authors laboratory and was funded by the BBSRC, MRC, Royal Soeiety and Leverhulme Trust. NSS is a Lister Institute Researeh Fellow. MJS and NSS were Royal Soeiety University Research Fellows. The authors wish to aeknowledge Professors R. Hille and F. S. Mathews who have both made substantial eontributions to studies on TMADH and with... 

The author thanks Dr. J. M. Creeth, Dr. R. H. Pain, Professor A. Allen, Dr. J. K. Sheehan, and Dr. I. Carlstedt for their comments and suggestions, and other colleagues who have made helpful comments. The support of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine is greatly appreciated. 

Tie Scientific and Technical Department of the Imperial Institute conducts investigations for the Indian and Colonial Governments, chiefly relating to the composition and utilisation of raw materials. The National Physical Laboratory includes a Department of Metallurgy and Metallurgical Chemistry. Laboratories are attached to many public Institutions, such as the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory of Hie Royal Institution, and those of the Lister Institute and the Royal Dublin Society. 

The author is a Jenner Fellow of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine. Pam Smith is thanked for her patience in typing this manuscript and Bhav Sheth, Jenny Woof and Ken Davis for assistance with the diagrams. The financial support of the SERC, MRC and Yorkshire Cancer Research Campaign is acknowledged. 

The First World War contributed to an acceleration in the understanding of the causes of scurvy in at least two ways. The first was that many researchers were to have first-hand experience of the havoc wrought by disease in many campaigns during the war. The second was that as men were recruited for the war effort abroad, women took on many of the tasks at home previously carried out by men. As a result of this a team of women remained at the Lister Institute in London, led... 

The decade between 1920 and 1930. saw much activity in the investigation of vitamin C. Many attempts were made to isolate the vitamin. The Lister Institute was again at the forefront of the research and Zilva and his co-workers were able to explore aspects of the chemistry of the vitamin, without actually isolating it. They were able to show that it was a reducing agent and used this property, where appropriate, in analysis instead of the very time-consuming bioassay. 

The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the UK Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, the Lister Institute of Preventative Medicine, and the Emopean Union, EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) and the Royal Society. 

I thank Professor Helen Muir, FRS for her support and encouragement during my stay at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology between 1983-1986. I also acknowledge useful discussions and interactions with many colleagues and collaborators. I thank the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine for financial support. The literature cut-off date is mid-1986. 

Rydon, Norman (p. 243, Plate 36) born in 1912 studied chemistry at London (B.Sc. 1931, Ph.D. 1933, D.Sc. 1938), D. Phil., Oxford 1939. Chemical Defence Experimental Section, 1940-1945. From 1945-1947 Member of Scientific Staff of the Lister Institute, then Reader at Birkbeck College, London, until 1949 and from 1949-1952 Reader at Imperial College, London. Professor at Manchester College of Science and Technology 1952-1957, Professor and Head of Department, Exeter University 1957-1977. Rydon s work outside of peptide research was on natural substances peptide topics at Exeter included cysteine peptides, sequential polypeptides, synthetic studies of ferredoxins. Chlorination followed by starchh-potassium iodide for the detection of peptides is known as Rydon-Smith reagent. 

Chick, H., M. Hume, and M. Macfarlane, War on Disease A History of the Lister Institute (London, Deutsch, 1971). 

In 1912, Casimir Eunk, working at the Lister Institute in London, coined the term vitamine and applied it to the antiberiberi substance. 

From then on, chemists in many countries tried to concentrate the substance in rice that prevented beriberi in order to obtain it in pure form. Among them was Casimir Funk, of the Lister Institute, London, who, in 1912, coined the term vita-mine and applied it to the antiberiberi substance. 

We thank the British Library Research and Development Department, the Department of Education and Science, Pfizer Central Research and the Science and Engineering Research Council for funding this work. DWR is a Lister Institute Research Fellow. PJA is a Royal Society 1983 University Research Fellow and thanks the Medical Research Council for support. 

Caspary, E. A. (1954). Diffusion coefficient of crystalline goat P-lactoglobulin. Lister institute for preventive medicine. Biochemistry Journal, 58, 332-336. 

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