Richard Nelson Perham, FRS, FMedSci,

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(27 April 1937 – 14 February 2015), was Professor of

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at the

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, and Master of St John's College, Cambridge 2004–07. He was also editor-in-chief of ''

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'' (

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) from 1998 to 2013.

Education

Perham attended

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, then

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, where he completed his

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and ScD. Perham then went on to become a MRC scholar at Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), also at Cambridge.

Research and career

Perham was known for his contributions to the chemistry of proteins in multimeric assemblies.

Societies

Perham was a member of the following organisations and societies: * 1965

Biochemical Society The Biochemical Society is a learned society in the United Kingdom in the field of biochemistry, including all the cellular and molecular biosciences. Structure It currently has around 7000 members, two-thirds in the UK. It is affiliated with th ...

member * 1983

EMBO Member Membership of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) is an award granted by the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in recognition of "research excellence and the outstanding achievements made by a life scientist". , 88 EMB ...

* 1986 Royal Institution for Great Britain member * 1992

Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...

member

Awards and fellowships

His awards include: * 1971 (EMBO) fellowship

Max Planck Institute for Medical Research The Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, is a facility of the Max Planck Society for basic medical research. Since its foundation, six Nobel Prize laureates worked at the Institute: Otto Fritz Meyerhof (Physiology), R ...

(Max-Planck-Institut für Medizinische Forschung), Heidelberg * 1984 Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)Berry, Alan; Radford, Sheena E. (2018). "Richard Nelson Perham. 27 April 1937–14 February 2015". ''

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society The ''Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society'' is an academic journal on the history of science published annually by the Royal Society. It publishes obituaries of Fellows of the Royal Society. It was established in 1932 as ''Obitu ...

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* 1988 Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) * 199
Max Planck Research Prize
* 1998

Novartis Medal and Prize The Portland Press Excellence in Science Award was an annual award instituted in 1964 to recognize notable research in any branch of biochemistry undertaken in the UK or Republic of Ireland. It was initially called the CIBA Medal and Prize, then t ...

of the Biochemical Society * 2000 Silver Medal of the Italian Biochemical Society * 2005 Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) * 200
Edman Prize International Association of Protein Structure and Proteomics (IAPSAP)
* 2011 Diplôme d'Honneur of the

Selected bibliography

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References

1937 births 2015 deaths Biologists at the University of Cambridge Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge English molecular biologists Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) Fellows of the Royal Society Masters of St John's College, Cambridge Members of Academia Europaea People educated at Latymer Upper School {{UK-biologist-stub