Walter Ramsden, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Walter Ramsden

Date of Birth: 04-Oct-1868

Date of Death: 26-Mar-1947

Profession: chemist, physiologist

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Walter Ramsden

  • William Ramsden (4 October 1868 – 26 March 1947) was a British biochemist and physiologist.
  • He discovered the phenomenon now known as Pickering stabilization in 1903, before the effect was independently rediscovered by Spencer U.
  • Pickering in 1907.At age 14 Walter Ramsden withdrew from Manchester Grammar School to study privately at home.
  • He matriculated at Keble College, Oxford and graduated there with a 1st Class in the school of physiology.
  • By means of a Radcliffe Travelling Fellowship in Medical Sciences he studied from 1893 to 1896 at Zürich, at Vienna, and then at Guy's Hospital, qualifying M.B., B.Ch.
  • in 1897 and graduating D.M.
  • (Oxford) in 1902.
  • In 1899 he was elected a Sheppard Medical Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford and held the Fellowship until his death.
  • At Oxford he was a lecturer in physiological chemistry under Francis Gotch until 1913 and under C.
  • S.
  • Sherrington during the academic year 1913–1914.Ramsden was a founder member of the Biochemical Society in 1911.
  • He was Johnston Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Liverpool from 1914 until his retirement in 1931.
  • His predecessor was Benjamin Moore and his successor was Harold Channon (1897–1979). Ramsden's research work was mainly on the chemistry of proteins and the theory of emulsions.
  • He was one of the first to appreciate the importance of physico-chemical surface studies in biology, particularly in relation to protein chemistry.
  • After his retirement back to Oxford he worked particularly on the proteins of silk. John Betjeman wrote a poem I.M.
  • Walter Ramsden ob.
  • March 26, 1947 Pembroke College, Oxford on the occasion of Ramsden's death.

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