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Alan Fersht

Chemistry

Sir Alan Roy Fersht is a British chemist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge and an emeritus professor in the University of Cambridge's Department of Chemistry, where he served as Master of Gonville and Caius College from 2012 to 2018. Working at the interface of chemistry, molecular biology, and biophysics, he is regarded as a founder of protein engineering, the discipline that uses site directed mutagenesis to test how a protein's structure determines its function and stability.

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Birth Year
1943 1
Nationality
United Kingdom 1
Birthplace
London Borough of Hackney, United Kingdom 1
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Chemistry 1
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Biology 1
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  • P27 (country of citizenship): United Kingdom
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  • P19 (place of birth): London Borough of Hackney, United Kingdom
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  • Works In: Chemistry, Lead sentence
    Sir Alan Roy Fersht (born 21 April 1943) is a British chemist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, and an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.
  • Member Of: Royal Society, Article text
    Fersht was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1983. The Royal Society awarde
  • Member Of: National Academy of Sciences, Article text
    He is an International Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, a Foreign Member of the American Philo
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