Oxford Biochemistry Department

M.G. Ord and L.A. Stocken, The Oxford Biochemistry Department Its History and Activities 1920-1985, Joshua Associates Ltd., Oxford, 1990. 

At this time, I was fortunate to have as collaborator Neil Madsen, who had recently come to spend a postdoctoral year in the Oxford Biochemistry Department after graduating from Carl Cori s Department in St. Louis, and who had chosen to risk possible disappointment by sharing with me the struggle with an apparently intractable problem. Neil had already succeeded in showing that acetate per se was not metabolized by extracts of our organisms but that such extracts were rich in acetate thiokinase activity and were thus able rapidly to form acetyl co-enzyme A from acetate, ATP and CoASH. However, despite all manner of tricks, we were unable to persuade such extracts either to oxidise acetate to CO2... 

The Scripps-Oxford Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK Department of Chemistry and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology,... 

Thompson RHS (1940). The Respiration of Rat Skin after Damage with Sulphur Mustard, Report U9434. Oxford, UK Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University. 

Further details are furnished based on the work of Dr. Eric Newsholme, who was head of the Biochemistry Department at Oxford University. Newsholme found that the polyunsaturated fats are highly immunosuppressive. Yet, these are the very kinds of fats and oils which are now pushed, as derived from, say, com and sunflower seeds. Not so, however, with animal fats. 

The changes in the Oxford Chemistry School were not as considerable in this period as they were between 1950 and 1980 when the major basic features of chemistry had been uncovered by a worldwide elfort. We shall see that the three Oxford Chemistry Departments often came to investigate dilferent aspects of these features, while other related departments, for example biochemistry and material science, viewed them with a somewhat dilferent emphasis. It is probable that chemistry itself had become a subject in which principles had been established but that many ramifications remained to be... 

The Queen s College, and the University Department of Biochemistry, Oxford, England... 

Eric R. Scerri is a lecturer in chemistry and the history and philosophy of science at University of California, Los Angeles. He is the founder and edi-tor-in-chief of the journal Foundations of Chemistry and the author o/The Periodic Tabic Its Story and Its Significance (Oxford University Press, 2007). He received his Ph.D. in the his ton/ and philosophy of science from King s College London. Address Department of Chemistry Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569. Internet scerri chem.ucla.edu... 

The photographs of early researchers in biochemistry are reproduced with the kind permission of Elsevier Science Publishers The Nobel Foundation The Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford Oxford University Press Annual Reviews, Inc. L.A. Stocken and Pergamon Press. 

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio... 

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