Richard Perham
English molecular biologist
Richard Nelson Perham (27 April 1937 – 14 February 2015), was Professor of biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, and Master of St John's College, Cambridge 2004–07. He was also editor-in-chief of FEBS Journal (Federation of European Biochemical Societies) from 1998 to 2013.
Education
Perham attended Latymer Upper School, then St John's College, Cambridge, where he completed his MA (Cantab), PhD and ScD. Perham then went on to become a MRC scholar at Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), also at Cambridge.
Research and career
Perham was known for his contributions to the chemistry of proteins in multimeric assemblies.
Societies
Perham was a member of the following organisations and societies:
1965 Biochemical Society member
1983 EMBO Member
1986 Royal Institution for Great Britain member
1992 Academia Europaea member
Awards and fellowships
His awards include:
1971 (EMBO) fellowship Max Planck Institute for Medical Research (Max-Planck-Institut für Medizinische Forschung), Heidelberg
1984 Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
1988 Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)
1993 Max Planck Research Prize
1998 Novartis Medal and Prize of the Biochemical Society
2000 Silver Medal of the Italian Biochemical Society
2005 Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci)
2008 Edman Prize International Association of Protein Structure and Proteomics (IAPSAP)
2011 Diplôme d'Honneur of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies
Selected bibliography
Perham, Richard N (1975). Instrumentation in amino acid sequence analysis. London New York: Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-551250-3.
Perham, Richard N; Chapman, Stephen; Scrutton, Nigel (2002). Flavins and flavoproteins 2002: proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium, St.
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