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PROF. WALTER RAMSDEN, emeritus professor of biochemistry in the University of Liverpool, died on March 26 at the age of seventy-eight. He went to Liverpool from Oxford in 1914, following Benjamin Moore in the chair of biochemistry. The subject was still in its infancy, attracting comparatively few graduates and scarcely any science students. Rams-den's teaching was mainly concerned with medical undergraduates, and for them he introduced for the first time a course of lectures in the subject, together with practical classes. These admirably covered general principles, but did not overburden the student with detail. The result was that when the medical student had passed the second M.B. examination he entered the hospital wards with an interest in the biochemical problems of disease—an approach which at that time was comparatively new and exciting.
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COOPE, R. Prof. Walter Ramsden. Nature 159, 801 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159801a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/159801a0