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BY the death of Prof. Benjamin Moore, at fifty-five years of age, science has suffered the loss of an original and daring thinker. Moore was born, and studied, in Belfast, and the first degree he took was Bachelor of Engineering. At one time he thought of following that profession. He received a travelling research scholarship, and studied physical chemistry under Ostwald in Germany, and then came to London and studied physiology under Sharpey Schafer. From thence he went to fill a chair at Yale Medical College, but returned a few years later to be lecturer in physiology at Charing Cross Medical School, and at the same time to qualify himself as a medical man—a double task requiring much nerve, energy and courage. Moore was then elected to the newly-founded Johnston chair of biochemistry at Liverpool—the first chair in that subject to be founded in this country. He took a most active share in the development of the Medical School at Liverpool University, and jointly with Mr. Whitley founded the Biochemical Journal. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1912. In 1914 he accepted an invitation to join the Department of Applied Physiology under the Medical Research Council, and after rendering valuable services to industrial medicine during the War, was elected, in 1918, to the newly-founded Whitley chair of biochemistry at Oxford. There he quickly inspired several of his honour school students to carry out pieces of research work, and all too soon he has passed from thence, the victim of influenza. He took the greatest interest in Public Health, and a State Medical Service, as shown by his book “The Dawn of the Health Age.”
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H., L. Prof. Benjamin Moore, F.R.S. Nature 109, 348 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109348a0
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