Bill Rutherford

Bill Rutherford
Bill Rutherford in at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2014
Born Alfred William Rutherford
(1955-01-02) 2 January 1955[1]
Morpeth, Northumberland[1]
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Thesis Electron paramagnetic resonance studies of photosynthetic electron transport in purple bacteria (1979)
Doctoral advisor Michael C.W. Evans[5][6][7]
Website imperial.ac.uk/people/a.rutherford

Alfred William (Bill) Rutherford FRS[2] is Professor and Chair in Biochemistry of Solar energy in the Department of Life sciences at Imperial College London.[4][8][9]

Education

Rutherford was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School for Boys, Morpeth[1] and the University of Liverpool where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry in 1976.[1] He moved to University College London (UCL) where he was awarded a PhD in 1979 for electron paramagnetic resonance studies of photosynthetic electron transport in purple bacteria[5][6][7][10] supervised by Michael C.W. Evans.

Research

Rutherford's research[11][12][13][14][15][16][17] investigates:

Rutherford's research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC),[18] the Wolfson Foundation and the Royal Society.[2][19]

Awards and honours

Rutherford was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014. His nomination reads:

Rutherford has also been awarded the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, the Médaille d'argent of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in 2001 and was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2001.[4] On 25 January 2013 Rutherford received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University, Sweden.[20]

Personal life

Rutherford is a musician and has been a member of The Baskervilles Blues Band[21][22] and Baskerville Willy.[23][1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 RUTHERFORD, Prof. Alfred William, (Bill). ukwhoswho.com. Who's Who. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
  2. 1 2 3 4 Anon (2014). "Professor Bill Rutherford FRS". London: royalsociety.org. Archived from the original on 2015-11-17. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 2016-11-11. Retrieved 2016-03-09.
  3. ↑ Rutherford, A. W.; Faller, P (2003). "Photosystem II: Evolutionary perspectives". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 358 (1429): 245–53. doi:10.1098/rstb.2002.1186. PMC 1693113. PMID 12594932.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Rutherford, Bill (2014). "Professor Bill Rutherford, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences". Imperial College London. Archived from the original on 2017-03-14.
  5. 1 2 Rutherford, A. W.; Evans, M. C. W. (1979). "A high potential semiquinone-iron type EPR signal in Rhodopseudomonas viridis". FEBS Letters. 100 (2): 305–308. doi:10.1016/0014-5793(79)80357-9.
  6. 1 2 Rutherford, A. W.; Evans, M. C. W. (1979). "The high potential semiquinone-iron signal in Rhodopseudomonas viridis is the specific quinone secondary electron acceptor in the photosynthetic reaction centre". FEBS Letters. 104 (2): 227–230. doi:10.1016/0014-5793(79)80820-0.
  7. 1 2 Rutherford, A. W.; Heathcote, P; Evans, M. C. (1979). "Electron-paramagnetic-resonance measurements of the electron-transfer components of the reaction centre of Rhodopseudomonas viridis. Oxidation—reduction potentials and interactions of the electron acceptors". The Biochemical Journal. 182 (2): 515–23. doi:10.1042/bj1820515. PMC 1161333. PMID 228655.
  8. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic
  9. ↑ Bill Rutherford's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  10. ↑ Rutherford, Aflred William (1979). Electron paramagnetic resonance studies of photosynthetic electron transport in purple bacteria. london.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of London. OCLC 500554060.
  11. ↑ Hanley, J; Deligiannakis, Y; Pascal, A; Faller, P; Rutherford, A. W. (1999). "Carotenoid oxidation in photosystem II". Biochemistry. 38 (26): 8189–95. doi:10.1021/bi990633u. PMID 10387064.
  12. ↑ Un, S.; Atta, M.; Fontecave, M.; Rutherford, A. W. (1995). "G-Values as a Probe of the Local Protein Environment: High-Field EPR of Tyrosyl Radicals in Ribonucleotide Reductase and Photosystem II". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 117 (43): 10713–10719. doi:10.1021/ja00148a013.
  13. ↑ Rutherford, A. W. (1989). "Photosystem II, the water-splitting enzyme". Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 14 (6): 227–32. doi:10.1016/0968-0004(89)90032-7. PMID 2669240.
  14. ↑ Rutherford, A. W.; Krieger-Liszkay, A (2001). "Herbicide-induced oxidative stress in photosystem II". Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 26 (11): 648–53. doi:10.1016/s0968-0004(01)01953-3. PMID 11701322.
  15. ↑ Boussac, A; Zimmermann, J. L.; Rutherford, A. W. (1989). "EPR signals from modified charge accumulation states of the oxygen evolving enzyme in Ca2+-deficient photosystem II". Biochemistry. 28 (23): 8984–9. doi:10.1021/bi00449a005. PMID 2557913.
  16. ↑ Cardona, T.; Sedoud, A.; Cox, N.; Rutherford, A. W. (2012). "Charge separation in Photosystem II: A comparative and evolutionary overview". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1817: 26–43. doi:10.1016/j.bbabio.2011.07.012.
  17. ↑ Thapper, A.; Styring, S. R.; Saracco, G.; Rutherford, A. W.; Robert, B.; Magnuson, A.; Lubitz, W.; Llobet, A.; Kurz, P.; Holzwarth, A.; Fiechter, S.; De Groot, H.; Campagna, S.; Braun, A.; Bercegol, H.; Artero, V. (2013). "Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels – an Evolving Research Field within AMPEA, a Joint Programme of the European Energy Research Alliance". Green. 3. doi:10.1515/green-2013-0007.
  18. ↑ Anon (2014). "UK Government research grants awarded to Alfred William Rutherford". rcuk.ac.uk. Swindon: Research Councils UK. Archived from the original on 2017-03-14.
  19. ↑ Faunce, Thomas A.; Lubitz, Wolfgang; Rutherford, A. W. (Bill); MacFarlane, Douglas; Moore, Gary F.; Yang, Peidong; Nocera, Daniel G.; Moore, Tom A.; Gregory, Duncan H.; Fukuzumi, Shunichi; Yoon, Kyung Byung; Armstrong, Fraser A.; Wasielewski, Michael R.; Styring, Stenbjorn (2013). "Energy and environment policy case for a global project on artificial photosynthesis". Energy & Environmental Science. 6 (3): 695. doi:10.1039/c3ee00063j. ISSN 1754-5692.
  20. ↑ "New honorary doctorates in science and technology – Uppsala University, Sweden". uu.se. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
  21. ↑ Baum, Harold (1995). Biochemists' Song Book. qub.ac.uk. CRC Press. ISBN 0748404163. OCLC 191661780. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
  22. ↑ Anon (2015). "Baskervilles Blues Band". baskervillesbluesband.com. Archived from the original on 2017-03-14.
  23. ↑ Anon (2015). "Baskerville Willy: the Blues, but not as we know it". baskervillewilly.com. Archived from the original on 2015-08-10.
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