Edwin Haslam (1932 – 3 October 2013)Edwin HASLAM Obituary
was an organic chemist and an author of books on polyphenols. He was an alumnus of Sir John Deane's College in Northwich, Cheshire, United Kingdom and was for many years Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Sheffield. Haslam proposed a first comprehensive definition of plant polyphenols based on the earlier proposals of

Edgar Charles Bate-Smith Edgar Charles Bate-Smith (1900-1989Practical Polyphenolics, Edwin Haslam, 1998, ) was an English chemist and phytochemist specialising in food chemistry. He worked in the Low Temperature Research Station in Cambridge where his main fields of re ...

, Tony Swain and Theodore White, which includes specific structural characteristics common to all phenolics having a tanning property. It is referred to as the White–Bate-Smith–Swain–Haslam (WBSSH) definition.

Works

* ''Chemistry of vegetable tannins'', 1 edition – first published in 1966 * ''The shikimate pathway'', 2 editions – first published in 1974 * ''Metabolites and metabolism'', 1 edition – first published in 1985 * ''Plant polyphenols: vegetable tannins revisited'', 1 edition – first published in 1989 * ''Shikimic acid'', 1 edition – first published in 1993 * ''Practical Polyphenolics'', 2 editions – first published in 1998,

References

External links

Edwin Haslam on openlibrary.org
* 1932 births 2013 deaths Organic chemists Academics of the University of Sheffield British science writers British chemists Inorganic chemists People educated at Sir John Deane's College {{UK-chemist-stub