Department of Biochemistry

Description

1. Frank Charles Happold, (Professor of Biochemistry 1946-67), 'Biochemistry in Leeds: A Short Account of its Development between 1936 and 1967', [c.1979]. [Photocopy, TS]. With additional accounts by E.A. Dawes (pp.28-30), S. Dagley (pp.30-36), and B.A. Kilby (pp.36-42).


2. Correspondence [photocopies]:

(i) Sir Percival Hartley to Professor F.C. Happold, 12 December 1949 - 4 February 1950.

(ii) The Bursar, Professor F.C. Happold, Mrs P. Shuttleworth & Solicitors, 28 February - 31 December 1957, re. Hartley Bequest to Department of Biochemistry.


3. P.N. Campbell, Biochemistry at Leeds, (Inaugural Lecture, 1969). 2 copies.


4. S. Dagley, Bacteria and the Biochemist, (Inaugural Lecture, 1965).


5. Biochemistry Prospectuses (including Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)


6. Dept. of Biochemistry, Departmental Manual, 1975-76.


7. Correspondence, J.H. Western (Senior Lecturer in Agricultural Botany, 1951-59; Professor 1959-71) to J.R.S. Fincham (Professor of Genetics, 1966-76) re. Depts. of Biochemistry & Biophysics.


8. The University of Leeds, Dept. of Biochemistry Open Day, Friday 7 May 1982, incl. press cutting from the Yorkshire Post, 8 May 1982.


9. (i) Correspondence, D.C. Morris, Senior Assistant Registrar, to Robin Brightwell (Editor, BBC Horizon), 1 May 1987, including:

(ii) Professor S.B. Brown, ‘Why Grass is Green and Why Our Blood is Red’, (Inaugural Lecture, 1987).


10. Biological Sciences Liaison Group, various publicity papers.


11. The Biochemical Society, Graduate Employment Survey, 1986.


12. Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 50th Anniversary Symposium, 19 December 1996.


13. The Tetrapyrrole Discussion Group, 1977-1997, Members’ Directory.


14. School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Annual Report, 1997-1998, 1998-1999


15. School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Undergraduate Handbook, Year 3, 1998.


16. School of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, undergraduate Prospectuses, nd [c2002]; n.d. [c2003/04]

Biography or history

The Department of Biochemistry was founded in 1946 and spent many years in premises in Hyde Terrace before outgrowing these and moving onto the central campus of the University of Leeds. The expansion continued in 1990 when the Department of Biochemistry merged with the Astbury Department of Biophysics and the Biotechnology Unit to form a Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.


Then, on 1st August 1997, the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology became a School within the newly-formed Faculty of Biological Sciences. The Department of Microbiology metamorphosed from the Department of Bacteriology in 1972, itself developing from the various activities of the Medical School at Leeds in the original Medical School building.


The first degree of B.Sc. Bacteriology was awarded in 1931. The Bacteriology Department was housed in the Algernon and Firth building next to the original Medical School in 1935 and remained there until 1980. It returned to the Old Medical School building in 1980 and incorporated microbiologists from the agriculture and food areas. The latest major development took place on 1st August 1998 when the Department of Microbiology joined the School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology as part of the new Faculty of Biological Sciences.

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