Colin Ratledge (born 9 October 1936) is a British biochemist who was Professor of Microbial Biochemistry at the

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from 1983 to 2004."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 He was educated at Bury High School, and graduated from

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with a BSc in 1957 and a PhD in 1962. He joined the

as a lecturer in 1967 and was head of the Department of Biochemistry there from 1986 to 1988. He was editor of ''

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'' from 1996 to 2017. He received the Stephen Chang Award from the

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in 2011. In 2015 the Colin Ratledge Center for Microbial Lipids opened at Shandong University of Technology. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from

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in 2018. He has an

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of 58 according to

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1936 births Living people Alumni of the University of Manchester Academics of the University of Hull Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry Fellows of the Royal Society of Biology British academic journal editors {{UK-biochemist-stub