George Edward Briggs FRS (25 June 1893 – 7 February 1985) was Professor of

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at the University of Cambridge. He was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, the eldest son of Walker Thomas and Susan (née Townend) Briggs. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1935. He published several significant scientific papers on enzymes. Part of his work on enzymes was done with J. B. S. Haldane, and led to the derivation of

Victor Henri Victor Henri (6 June 1872 – 21 June 1940) was a French-Russian physical chemist and physiologist. He was born in Marseilles as a son of Russian parents. He is known mainly as an early pioneer in enzyme kinetics. He published more than 500 pa ...

's enzyme kinetics law and

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via the steady state approximation. This derivation remains commonly used today because it provides better insight into the system, though it retains the algebraic form of the Michaelis-Menten equations. Notable publications of Briggs include ''Movement of Water in Plants''.Briggs, G. E. "Movement Of Water In Plants.." Science, vol 157, no. 3794, 1967, pp. 1297-1298. American Association For The Advancement Of Science (AAAS), doi:10.1126/science.157.3794.1297-a.

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Portrait of George Edward Briggs
at the National Portrait Gallery in London, painted by

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1893 births 1985 deaths People from Grimsby Fellows of the Royal Society Professors of Botany (Cambridge) {{UK-botanist-stub