Roger James Rossiter
Australian biochemist and medical practitioner (1913-1976)
Roger James Rossiter (24 July 1913 – 21 February 1976) was an Australian-born physician and biochemist. He worked on neurochemistry, lipids in the brain and nerves, and changes in myelin with aging. He made use of radioactive phosphorus isotopes to study the biochemistry of glycerophosphatides and phosphoinositides.
Rossiter was born in Glenelg, Australia, where his father James Leonard Rossiter was a well-known educationist. Educated a private schools he went to the University of Western Australia with a Rhodes Scholarship and graduated in chemistry and mathematics in 1934. He then joined Merton College, Oxford and studied biochemistry and physiology with a view to pursuing medical research. He received a D.Phil. (1940), M.A. (1942) and a bachelor's degree in medicine and surgery (1941). He then joined the Medical Research Council Burns Unit at Oxford during the war. He then joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and his wife also joined army service as an anaesthetist.
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