Education
He followed his older brother, John, to Stone House School and then to Winchester, where he was from 1923 to 1929, being awarded the Headmaster’s Natural Science Prize, 1928, and the Senior Science Prize, 1929.
In that year, he went up to Oriel College, Oxford, to read Animal Physiology, in which he duly achieved a First three years later, when he was appointed Departmental Demonstrator in Biochemistry and then Senior Demy at Magdalen College, Oxford. He succeeded in gaining the Gotch Memorial Prize in 1933.
He went on to study Clinical Medicine at University College Hospital Medical School, London, 1933-1936, resulting in the qualifications of LMSSA, MA, BM, and BCh, as well as in gold and silver medals. In parallel he was Lecturer in Physiology at University College, London.
He was awarded a Radcliffe Travelling Fellowship, which allowed him to make an extensive visit during the summer of 1937 to many of the laboratories in the US and Canada engaged in nutritional research, but he had to curtail his travels because he had been elected Official Fellow and Tutor in Physiology and Biochemistry at Magdalen College, followed by appointment as University Lecturer and Demonstrator in Biochemistry, 1937-1947.
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