Colin Ratledge

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Colin Ratledge
Born (1936-10-09) 9 October 1936 (age 88)
Alma mater University of Manchester
Scientific career
Fields Biochemistry
Institutions University of Hull
Doctoral students Sarah Gilbert

Colin Ratledge FRSC FRSB (born 9 October 1936) is a British biochemist who was Professor of Microbial Biochemistry at the University of Hull from 1983 to 2004. [1]

He was educated at Bury High School, [1] and graduated from University of Manchester with a BSc in 1957 and a PhD in 1962. [2] He joined the University of Hull as a lecturer in 1967 and was head of the Department of Biochemistry there from 1986 to 1988.

He was editor of Biotechnology Letters from 1996 to 2017. [3] He received the Stephen Chang Award from the American Oil Chemists' Society in 2011. [2] In 2015 the Colin Ratledge Center for Microbial Lipids opened at Shandong University of Technology. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 2018. [4]

He has an h-index of 58 according to Semantic Scholar. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Ratledge, Prof. Colin, (born 9 Oct. 1936), Professor of Microbial Biochemistry, University of Hull, 1983–2004, now Emeritus." WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 1 Dec. 2007
  2. 1 2 "History of the Stephen Chang Award". AOCS Lipid Library. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  3. ↑ Ratledge, Colin (January 2018). "The time has come; good-bye to all this". Biotechnology Letters. 40 (1): 1–3. doi: 10.1007/s10529-017-2474-3 . PMID   29143166. S2CID   6008251.
  4. ↑ "Two 'pioneering' British scientists honoured by Ben-Gurion University". Jewish News . 8 May 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  5. ↑ "C. Ratledge". Semantic Scholar . Retrieved 13 November 2023.


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