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PROF. A. C. CHIBNALL, whose appointment to succeed Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins as professor of biochemistry in the University of Cambridge has recently been announced, has for some time been recognized as one of the most distinguished biochemists in Great Britain. Since the time when, following upon a period of study with the late T. B. Osborne in Newhaven and some years of work at University College, London, Prof. Chibnall succeeded the late S. B. Schryver at the Imperial College, he and his pupils have maintained a steady output of work on problems of plant biochemistry. His earlier work was chiefly concerned with lipoid constituents of plants ; this subject had formerly been in great confusion, and Chibnall, with the aid of his own highly developed chemical technique reinforced by valuable collaboration in X-ray analysis from Dr. S. H. Piper, was the first to bring it into order. Later he devoted more attention to proteins and other nitrogenous constituents of plants in relation to problems of nitrogen metabolism ; this work formed the subject of his Silliman lectures and of the monograph which he based on them. More recently Chibnall has become interested in fundamental problems of protein structure, to which he has made important contributions, adopting the analytical approach and constantly insisting on the precision of technique which has been characteristic of all his work. Prof. Chibnall therefore leaves the important school of plant biochemistry, which he has built up at the Imperial College, with a. wide experience behind him and well fitted to take charge of the most distinguished biochemical laboratory in. Great Britain.
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Chair of Biochemistry in the University of Cambridge. Nature 151, 610 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151610a0
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