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I am a biochemist (now retired) at the CNRS in Marseilles, formerly Birmingham (UK). I have an h-index of 66 (Google Scholar), and an Erdős number of 3, via Jorge Soto-Andrade and Winnie Li (a bit of a cheat, really, as I'm not a mathematician and barely understand the mathematics in the papers coauthored with Jorge Soto).

Main interests: Biochemistry, especially enzymes, metabolic regulation, self-organization, metabolic control analysis, definition of life, biochemical evolution; physical chemistry; history and philosophy of science; Chile, and Latin America in general.

On any page, on any topic, if I see a red link I try to find a way to make it blue.

These are the pages I've created since I started on Wikipedia in June 2020:

Robert Abeles

Daniel Atkinson

Waldo Cohn

Sidney Colowick

Direct linear plot

Zacharias Dische

Enzyme memory

Eden Theatre, La Ciotat

Jan-Hendrik S. Hofmeyr

Bernard Horecker

Christian Jung

Hermann Niemeyer

Herbert M. Sauro

Alberto Sols

Tetranucleotide hypothesis

Tsou plot

John Westley

Template:EnzExplorer

Dan Atkinson (disambiguation)

Christian Jung (disambiguation)

Gösta Pettersson (disambiguation)

Athelstan Cornish-Bowden (biochemist) → Athel Cornish-Bowden^[1]

Athelstan Hall Cornish-Bowden (land surveyor) → Athelstan Cornish-Bowden^[1]

Biochemical oscillations → Biological rhythm

Catalytic constant → turnover number

Drago tree → Dracaena draco

Endo-1,4-β-xylanase → Xylanase^[2]

Enterobactin synthase → 2,3-dihydroxybenzoate—serine ligase^[2]

Exo-alpha-sialidase → Neuraminidase^[2]

Guluronate-specific alginate lyase → Poly(alpha-L-guluronate) lyase^[2]

Hanes plot → Hanes–Woolf plot

Harden–Young ester → Fructose 1,6-bisphosphate

Harden-Young ester → Fructose 1,6-bisphosphate

HK1 → Hexokinase I

HK2 → Hexokinase II

HK3 → Hexokinase III

List of irregularly spelled places in the United Kingdom →

List of irregularly spelt places in the United Kingdom^[3]

List of people from Marseilles → List of people from Marseille^[4]

Mannuronate-specific alginate lyase → Poly(beta-D-mannuronate) lyase^[2]

Mikhail Volkenshtein → Mikhail Volkenstein^[5]

Retinoid isomerohydrolase → All-trans-retinyl-palmitate hydrolase^[2]

These are other pages I've worked significantly on:

In addition to these I've made a huge number of minor edits to pages about small places in Chile (and a few more substantial edits, for example for El Quisco). That has become an obsession, and a bit pointless, as I doubt whether any readers of Wikipedia in English really care who represents Sierra Gorda in the Senate. However, if the information is there it should be correct.

• 11th June 2020. First registered. 0 edits.
• 11th June 2021. First birthday. 2113 edits. 6 pages created (apart from redirection pages.)
• 27th October 2021. Passed 5000 edits.
• 11th June 2022. Second birthday. 7659 edits.
• 31st July 2022. Passed 10000 edits (editing Stemod-13(17)-ene synthase, of all obscure pages).
• 11th June 2023. Third birthday. 14 185 edits.
• 26th June 2023. Passed 15000 edits (editing prunasin β-glucosidase).
• 11th June 2024. Fourth birthday. 18 294 edits. 14 articles created (apart from redirection and disambiguation pages).
• 9th December 2024. Passed 20000 edits (editing Barnet Woolf — a significant article, for a change)

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My real name is Athel Cornish-Bowden. Anyone who knows me in real life will have easily guessed that from the way I sign, but it's not so obvious for others. When I first registered for Wikipedia I signed like that, but when I realized that most people didn't I changed to what you see now. The A in my given name is pronounced like the a in "hat" [æ]; most people say it like that, but I've heard it with the a of "hate" [ɛɪ̯]. "Cornish" is pronounced as you'd expect. The "Bow" in "Bowden" can be pronounced like "bow" or like "bow", whichever you prefer. That sounds a bit obscure, so I rephrase: it can be pronounced like "beau" or like "bough", whichever you prefer: [bəʊ̯] or [baʊ̯]. The name is common in the southwest, Devon in particular, where it is pronounced ['baʊ̯dən] ("bough dən"). My great-grandfather William Bowden was from Devon and pronounced it accordingly. However, my great-grandmother thought that sounded "common" and insisted that he change it to ['bəʊ̯dən] ("beau dən"), and that's how most of us say it today. The name is also common in Greater Manchester (with nothing much in between, so it probably arose independently in two places), where it is pronounced ['bəʊ̯dən] or ['bo:dən].

I saw a section entitled "People with Wikipedia articles that I've met" on another user's page, and I thought, that's interesting, I wonder how many I have. I haven't included people who are still alive, but only people who can't come back and say they have no idea who I am. I also don't include people that I met very casually in circumstances where they wouldn't remember me afterwards, such as the Nobel Prizewinner whose car I helped to push when it broke down in Oxford, or another Nobel Prizewinner that I exchanged a few words with when we found ourselves next to one another at the urinals at a meeting at Harvard.

The composer Christopher Willis is my nephew. However, it doesn't say so either in his Wikipedia article or in mine, because I don't know of a source that would be acceptable as verification.