Asher Korner

Asher Korner (7 February 1929 – 22 September 1971) was a British biochemist.[4][5]

Asher Korner
Born(1929-02-07)7 February 1929
Died22 September 1971(1971-09-22) (aged 42)
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Scientific career
Institutions
Doctoral students

Education

Korner was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained his PhD in 1957.[6]

Career and research

Korner became Director of Studies in Biochemistry at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was made a fellow in 1960 and served as a lecturer from 1960 to 1967.[7] During this time, Korner supervised the PhD of the future Nobel laureate Tim Hunt.[1][8] In 1967, Korner moved to the University of Sussex,[9][10][11] where he became the university's first professor of biochemistry.[12]

Awards and honours

Korner is commemorated at the University of Sussex through the Korner Travelling Fellowship Fund.[13]

References
  1. Hunt, Richard Timothy (1969). The synthesis of haemoglobin (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 885437139.
  2. Hunter, Anthony Rex (1969). Aspects of mammalian protein synthesis (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 500479081.
  3. Munro, A. J.; Korner, A. (1963). "Lack of Messenger RNA in Reticulocyte Cell-sap". Nature. 198 (4883): 891–892. doi:10.1038/198891a0. ISSN 0028-0836.
  4. "Obituary of Asher Korner, for The Times 1p typescript. | The National Archives". Discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  5. Maynard Smith, John (1971). "Asher Korner obituary (in FOCUS - the magazine of the university of sussex" (PDF). sussex.ac.uk.
  6. "Chemistry Tree - Asher Korner Details". Academictree.org. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  7. Earl, Dcn; Korner, A (1965). "The Isolation and Properties of Cardiac Ribosomes and Polysomes". Biochemical Journal. 94 (3): 721–734. doi:10.1042/bj0940721. PMC 1206608. PMID 14340064.
  8. "Nobel Prizes — Department of Biochemistry". Bioc.cam.ac.uk. 2 April 1933. Archived from the original on 15 December 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  9. Mathews, Michael B.; Korner, Asher (1970). "Mammalian Cell-Free Protein Synthesis Directed by Viral Ribonucleic Acid". European Journal of Biochemistry. 17 (2): 328–338. doi:10.1111/j.1432-1033.1970.tb01170.x. PMID 5500401.
  10. Korner, A. (1970). "Hormonal Control of Protein Synthesis". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. London: Royal Society. 176 (1044): 287–290. doi:10.1098/rspb.1970.0047.
  11. Korner, Asher (1969). "The hormonal control of protein synthesis". Biochemical Journal. 115 (5): 30P.2–31P. doi:10.1042/bj1150030Pb. PMC 1185261. PMID 4311815.
  12. Rubinstein, William D.; Jolles, Michael A.; Rubinstein, Hilary L., eds. (2011), "Asher Korner", The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 533
  13. "Korner Travelling Fellowship Fund". Retrieved 26 December 2015.


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