Sir Alan Fersht | |
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| Born | Alan Roy Fersht 21 April 1943 London, England |
| Education | Sir George Monoux Grammar School |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Known for | Protein folding |
| Spouse |
Marilyn Persell (m. 1966) |
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| Thesis | Intramolecular Catalysis of Ester Hydrolysis (1968) |
| Doctoral students | Sophie E. Jackson, Andreas Matouschek |
Sir Alan Roy Fersht (born 21 April 1943) is a British chemist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, and an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.[6] He was Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge from 2012 to 2018.[7] He works on protein folding, and is sometimes described as a founder of protein engineering.[8][9]
- ^ Alan Fersht publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ Alan Fersht LMB Profile
- ^ Clarke, Jane (1993). Studies of disulphide mutants of barnase. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 53666398. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.318014. Archived from the original on 22 December 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- ^ "Women at Cambridge: Jane Clarke". University of Cambridge. 11 February 2014. Archived from the original on 24 March 2015.
- ^ Clarke, J; Fersht, A. R. (1993). "Engineered disulfide bonds as probes of the folding pathway of barnase: Increasing the stability of proteins against the rate of denaturation". Biochemistry. 32 (16): 4322–9. doi:10.1021/bi00067a022. PMID 8476861.
- ^ "Professor Sir Alan Fersht FRS, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge". Retrieved 26 July 2011.
- ^ "Professor Sir Alan Fersht FRS becomes the 42nd Master of Caius". Archived from the original on 22 April 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
- ^ "Imperial College London: biographical summary Alan Fersht". Archived from the original on 27 June 2009.
- ^ BBC: brief Fersht career summary at time of knighthood