Stephen E. Harding

Stephen E. Harding (born 2 August 1955) is a British biochemist specialising in biomolecular hydrodynamics. Harding is currently Professor of Applied Biochemistry at the University of Nottingham, has been the Director of the National Centre of Macromolecular Hydrodynamics since its foundation in 1987 and is a member of the Centre for the Study of the Viking Age.[1]

Besides developing and applying hydrodynamic methodology to biomolecules, Harding's notable work includes finding remarkable protein-like behaviour of carbohydrates and the discovery of high levels of Scandinavian genes in the ancestral population of coastal North West England. He is now part of the Saving Oseberg research team[2] - finding natural polymer consolidants to replace the decayed cellulose and lignin in all the perilously fragile artefacts of the Oseberg Viking ship and in August 2017 appointed an adjunct Professor of the University of Oslo.

In 1991 he became a junior medallist of the Royal Society of Chemistry and in 2002 awarded a DSc from the University of Oxford. For his scientific and historical investigation of the Vikings in North West England, where he hails from, he was, in 2011, made a Knight of the 1st class of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit[3][4] by King Harald of Norway for his "outstanding service in the interests of Norway". He gave the 2016 Hakon Hakonsson Lecture at Largs,[5] and the 2017 Svedberg lecture.[6]

Works

Papers

Books
  • Harding, Stephen E.; Rowe, A.J.; Horton, J.C. (1992). Analytical ultracentrifugation in biochemistry and polymer science. Royal Society of Chemistry. ISBN 978-0851863450.
  • Cavill, Paul; Harding, Stephen; Jesch, Judith (2000). Wirral and Its Viking Heritage. English Place-Name Society. ISBN 978-0-904889-59-8.
  • Harding, Stephen (2002). Viking Mersey: Scandinavian Wirral, West Lancashire and Chester. Countyvise Limited. p. 240. ISBN 978-1-901231-3-42.
  • Harding, Stephen; Jobling, Mark; King, Turi (2010). Viking DNA: The Wirral and West Lancashire Project. CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-466590-85-4.
  • Harding, Stephen E. (2016). Ingimund's Saga : Viking Wirral. Chester University Press. ISBN 978-1908258304.
  • Harding, Stephen (2017). Science and the Vikings. The Hakon Hakonsson Lecture, 2016. Largs & District Historical Society. ISBN 978-1-527207-0-66.
  • Harding, Stephen; Tombs, Michael P.; Adams, Gary G.; Paulsen,  Berit Smestad; Inngjerdingen, Kari Tvete; Barsett, Hilde (2017) An Introduction to Polysaccharide Biotechnology. 2nd Edition. CRC Press. ISBN 978-1482246971.
  • Full list of books: Amazon.co.uk

References
  1. Stephen Harding - The University of Nottingham. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
  2. "Saving Oseberg - Kulturhistorisk museum". www.khm.uio.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2017-08-02.
  3. "Tildelinger av ordener og medaljer". www.kongehuset.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2017-08-02.
  4. University of Nottingham (2012-04-05), University scientist and Viking expert made a Knight of Norway, retrieved 2017-08-02
  5. Largs & District Historical Society (2016-09-01). "Science and the Vikings". YouTube. Retrieved 2017-10-12.
  6. "Svedberg Lecture" (PDF). doi:10.1007/s00249-018-1321-3.
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