Jean Thomas (biochemist)

Dame Jean Thomas
DBE FRS FMedSci MAE FLSW
Chancellor of Swansea University
Incumbent
Assumed office
2018
Preceded byRhodri Morgan
38th Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge
In office
2007–2016
Preceded byDavid Ingram
Succeeded byMark Welland
Personal details
Born
Jean Olwen Thomas

1942 (age 81–82)[1]
OccupationBiochemist
Alma materUniversity College of Swansea[3]
AwardsEMBO Member[when?]
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
ThesisHydroxyl-carbonyl interaction in cyclic peptides and depsipeptides (1969)
Doctoral studentsCaroline S. Hill[2]
Websitewww.caths.cam.ac.uk/directory/professor-dame-jean-thomas

Dame Jean Olwen Thomas, DBE FRS FMedSci MAE FLSW (born 1 October 1942) is a Welsh biochemist, former Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge,[4] and Chancellor of Swansea University.[5]

  1. ^ Anon (2017). "Thomas, Dame Jean Olwen". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.37399. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Hill, Caroline Susan (1988). Structural studies of sea urchin sperm chromatin. lib.cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 53497646. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.305554.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference tphd was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ St Catharine’s College, Cambridge elects new Master (23 March 2006)
  5. ^ "Swansea University appoints Dame Jean Thomas as chancellor". BBC News. 8 January 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2018.