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

Latymer Upper School Latymer Upper School is a public school in Hammersmith, London, England, on King Street. It derives from a charity school, and is part of the same 1624 Latymer Foundation, from a bequest by the English legal official Edward Latymer. There ...

, then

St John's College, Cambridge St John's College, formally the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge, is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded by the House of Tudor, Tudor matriarch L ...

, where he completed his MA (Cantab),

PhD A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

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. It was founded in 1911 and acquired the existing '' Biochemical Journal'' the following year. T ...

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 Europe ...

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), ...

(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 ''Obi ...

''. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2018.0004 * 1988 Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) * 199
Max Planck Research Prize
* 1998 Novartis Medal and Prize 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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Personal life

Perham was married to Canadian cell biologist

Nancy Lane Perham Nancy Lane Perham (born 1936) is a Canadian cell biologist and artist ,and is a full professor at the University of Cambridge, specialising in cell-to-cell interactions. Early life and education Lane Perham was born in 1936, and is originall ...

, and they had two children together.

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