Quentin Gibson

Professor Quentin Gibson
Born Quentin Howieson Gibson
(1918-12-09)December 9, 1918
Died March 6, 2011(2011-03-06) (aged 92)
Awards Fellow of the Royal Society (1969)[1]
Scientific career
Institutions University of Sheffield
Cornell University
University of Pennsylvania
Notable students Keith Moffat[2]

Quentin Howieson Gibson FRS[1] (December 9, 1918 – March 16, 2011) was a Scottish American physiologist, and professor at University of Sheffield,[3] and Cornell University.[4]

Education

Gibson earned a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1944 and a Ph.D. in 1946, from Queen's University Belfast.

Life

Gibson taught at the University of Sheffield from 1947. Whilst at the University of Sheffield Gibson met Audrey Jane Pinsent in 1951. They married, started a family, and eventually had four children. Jane Gibson continued working part-time whilst raising her family. In 1963 they emigrated to the United States, where she took up positions, first at the University of Pennsylvania.[5] He succeeded (Sir) Hans Krebs as the Head of the Department of Biochemistry in 1955. In 1963 he left Sheffield to become a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He was the Greater Philadelphia Professor at Cornell University, from 1965 to 1996. In 1982, he became a U.S. citizen.[6]

Awards and honours

Gibson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1969.[1] He was also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and an associate editor of the Journal of Biological Chemistry from 1975 to 1994.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Olson, J. S.; Gutfreund, H. (2013). "Quentin Howieson Gibson 9 December 1918 -- 16 March 2011". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2013.0018.
  2. ↑ "Quentin H. Gibson's Profile on Academic Tree".
  3. ↑ "Quentin H. Gibson". Cf.ac.uk. Retrieved 2011-12-21.
  4. ↑ "Notices 2011". Royal Society. Retrieved 2011-12-21.
  5. ↑ Bretscher, Anthony. "Audrey Jane Gibson" (PDF). ecommons.cornell.edu. Cornell University. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  6. ↑ Olson, John. "Retrospective: Quentin H. Gibson". Asbmb.org. Retrieved 2011-12-21.
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