Quentin Gibson

Professor Quentin Gibson
Born Quentin Howieson Gibson
(1918-12-09)December 9, 1918
Died March 6, 2011(2011-03-06) (aged 92)
Institutions University of Sheffield
Cornell University
University of Pennsylvania
Notable students Keith Moffat[1]
Notable awards Fellow of the Royal Society (1969)[2]

Quentin Howieson Gibson FRS[2] (December 9, 1918 – March 16, 2011) was a Scottish American physiologist, and professor at University of Sheffield,[3] and Cornell University.[4]

Education

Gibson earned an Doctor of Medicine degree in 1944 and a Ph.D. in 1946, from Queen's University Belfast.

Career

Gibson taught at the University of Sheffield, from 1947 to 1963, succeeding (Sir) Hans Krebs as the Head of the Department of Biochemistry in 1955. In 1963, he was professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He was the Greater Philadelphia Professor at Cornell University, from 1965 to 1996. In 1982, he became a U.S. citizen.[5]

Awards and honours

Gibson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1969.[2] He was also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and an associate editor of the Journal of Biological Chemistry from 1975 to 1994.

References

  1. "Quentin H. Gibson's Profile on Academic Tree".
  2. 1 2 3 Olson, J. S.; Gutfreund, H. (2013). "Quentin Howieson Gibson 9 December 1918 -- 16 March 2011". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2013.0018.
  3. "Quentin H. Gibson". Cf.ac.uk. Retrieved 2011-12-21.
  4. "Notices 2011". Royal Society. Retrieved 2011-12-21.
  5. Olson, John. "Retrospective: Quentin H. Gibson". Asbmb.org. Retrieved 2011-12-21.

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