Patricia H. Clarke
| Patricia Clarke | |
|---|---|
 Patricia Clarke | |
| Born |
Patricia Hannah Green 29 July 1919 Pontypridd |
| Died | 28 January 2010 (aged 90) |
| Fields | Biochemistry |
| Institutions | University College London |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Notable awards |
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| Spouse | Michael Clarke (m. 1940) |
| Children | two |
Patricia Hannah Clarke FRS[1] (née Green) (29 July 1919 – 28 January 2010) was a British biochemist.[2][3]
Education and early life
Clarke was born in Pontypridd, South Wales, and was educated at Howell's School, Llandaff, from 1930 to 1937, before studying the Natural Sciences Tripos at Girton College, Cambridge, from 1937 to 1940.[1]
Career
After graduating she took a post at the Armament Research Department of the Ministry of Supply in Swansea to work on explosives. She returned to biochemistry in 1944 when she joined the Wellcome Trust Research Laboratories at Beckenham, Kent. In 1951, she moved to work part-time at the National Collection of Type Cultures of bacteria in the Central Public Health Laboratory at Colindale, London.[4]
Her final move was to the Department of Biochemistry at University College London, as Assistant Lecturer, being appointed Lecturer in 1956, Reader in 1966 and Professor of Microbial Biochemistry in 1974. Her major field of research was bacterial enzymes production and metabolism.
Awards and honours
Clarked was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1976[1][5] and delivered their Leeuwenhoek Lecture in 1979.
Personal life
In 1940, she married Michael Clarke; they had two children in 1947 and 1949.
References
- 1 2 3 4 Brammar, William J. (2015). "Patricia Hannah Clarke 29 July 1919 — 28 January 2010". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. Royal Society publishing. 61. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2015.0012. ISSN 0080-4606.
- ↑ Biography of Patrician Hannah Clarke, on her paper archive page Archived September 2, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Patrician Hannah Clarke Obituary, in the Guardian newspaper.
- ↑ "Clarke, Patricia Hannah, b. 1919. Biochemist". National Archives. Retrieved 4 August 2010.
- ↑ British Universities Film & Video Council (10 May 1994). "Clarke. Life of a Microbial Biochemist: Professor Patricia H. Clarke FRS in Conversation with Professor J. Gareth Morris FRS". Edinburgh: EDINA. Retrieved 2009-05-30.