Colin Ratledge

Colin Ratledge
Born (1936-10-09) 9 October 1936 (age 88)
Alma materUniversity of Manchester
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of Hull
Doctoral studentsSarah Gilbert

Colin Ratledge FRSC FRSB (born 9 October 1936) is a British biochemist who was Professor of Microbial Biochemistry at the University of Hull from 1983 to 2004.[1]

He was educated at Bury High School,[1] and graduated from University of Manchester with a BSc in 1957 and a PhD in 1962.[2] He joined the University of Hull as a lecturer in 1967 and was head of the Department of Biochemistry there from 1986 to 1988.

He was editor of Biotechnology Letters from 1996 to 2017.[3] He received the Stephen Chang Award from the American Oil Chemists' Society in 2011.[2] In 2015 the Colin Ratledge Center for Microbial Lipids opened at Shandong University of Technology. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 2018.[4]

He has an h-index of 58 according to Semantic Scholar.[5]

  1. ^ a b "Ratledge, Prof. Colin, (born 9 Oct. 1936), Professor of Microbial Biochemistry, University of Hull, 1983–2004, now Emeritus." WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 1 Dec. 2007
  2. ^ a b "History of the Stephen Chang Award". AOCS Lipid Library. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  3. ^ Ratledge, Colin (January 2018). "The time has come; good-bye to all this". Biotechnology Letters. 40 (1): 1–3. doi:10.1007/s10529-017-2474-3. PMID 29143166. S2CID 6008251.
  4. ^ "Two 'pioneering' British scientists honoured by Ben-Gurion University". Jewish News. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  5. ^ "C. Ratledge". Semantic Scholar. Retrieved 13 November 2023.