Don Northcote
Don Northcote | |
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Born | 27 December 1921 |
Died | 7 January 2004 | (aged 82)
Alma mater | University of London |
Awards | fellow of the Royal Society, |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Chemistry |
Donald Henry Northcote,[1] FRS (27 December 1921 – 7 January 2004) was a 20th-century British academic.[2]
Early life
Northcote was educated at Sir George Monoux Grammar School (1933–38). He graduated from University of London.[3]
Career
He was a Lecturer in Plant Biochemistry[4] at the University of Cambridge;[5] then Reader from 1965 to 1972; and Professor from 1972 to 1989.[6] He was also an Honorary Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge.[7]
Personal life
His daughter Jane married 21-year-old Tim Berners-Lee at Cambridge Register Office in July 1976. Both had graduated, together, in Physics. Both would work as engineers in Poole in Dorset, at Plessey. She had attended Perse School for Girls. The reception was at Sidney Sussex College, with a holiday in southern Ireland.[8] They lived in Corfe Mullen.[9]
References
- ^ Photo of Northcote
- ^ Nature.com
- ^ Crompton, D. W. T. (30 December 2019). "Donald Henry Northcote. 27 December 1921—7 January 2004". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 67: 357–370. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2019.0020.
- ^ "Wandering in the Gardens of the Mind: Peter Mitchell and the Making of Glynn" Prebble, J/Weber, B p45: Oxford;OUP; 2003 ISBN 0195142667
- ^ The First Floor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge (1952–58) By Brian S. Hartley
- ^ "Northcote, Donald Henry". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (July 2018 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 1 August 2018. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ College web-site
- ^ Cambridge Daily News Monday 19 July 1976, page 10
- ^ Bournemouth Echo
External links
- Obituary from the Cambridge University Reporter