List of University of Manchester People - Natural and Applied Sciences - Biology and Chemistry

Biology and Chemistry

• Sir James Baddiley FRS FRSE Biochemist
• Peter Philips (P. P.) Bedson, assistant lecturer and demonstrator at Owens College - later 1st Professor of Chemistry at Armstrong College, Newcastle (now Newcastle University). The School of Chemistry's building at Newcastle is named after him.
• Melvin Calvin (awarded Nobel prize in 1961), for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants.

• John Dalton, the founder of modern chemistry and atomic theory; one of the founders of UMIST.
• Sir Edward Frankland, analytical chemist; pioneer in organometallic chemistry
• Arthur Harden (awarded Nobel prize in 1929), for investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes.
• Walter Haworth (awarded Nobel prize in 1937), for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C.
• Frederic Jevons, Professor of Liberal Studies in Science, awarded inaugural UNESCO Prize for Science and Technology Policy, 1992
• William Henry Perkin, Jr., planned the new chemical laboratory building at Owens College in 1895.
• John Charles Polanyi (awarded Nobel prize in 1986), for his contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes.
• Robert Robinson (awarded Nobel prize in 1947), for his investigations on plant products of biological importance, especially the alkaloids.
• Sir Henry Roscoe, chemist who considered the foundations of comparative photochemistry, later Member of Parliament and vice-chancellor of the University of London.
• Carl Schorlemmer, organic chemist and Socialist
• Michael Smith (awarded Nobel prize in 1993), for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies.
• Edwin Southern inventor of the Southern blot which is a method routinely used in molecular biology for detection of a specific DNA sequence in DNA samples. (BSc Hons., 1958)
• Marie Stopes, botanist and birth control campaigner
• Sir Thomas Thorpe, investigated the relationship between substances molecular weights and their specific gravities, and his work on phosphorus compounds led to a better understanding of phosphorus trioxide.
• Alexander Todd (awarded Nobel prize in 1957), for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes.
• Chaim Weizmann, discovered how to use bacterial fermentation to produce large quantities of desired substances and is considered to be the father of industrial fermentation.
• William Crawford Williamson, natural historian and paleobotanist
• Derek Yalden, zoologist, president of The Mammal Society