Professor

Alexander Ogston

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Alexander Ogston
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Professor Ogston has been interested in various aspects of the application of physicochemical ideas and methods in the field of biochemistry and physiology. These include: (1) assessment of the constitution, configuration and physiological functions of hyaluronic acid; (2) theory and applications of physical methods to the determination of the characteristics of macromolecular particles in solution; (3) theoretical and critical papers on a variety of topics including enzyme kinetics and specificity, protein structure and the thermodynamics of metabolic processes. His present research interests are mainly in category (1).

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Alexander George Ogston 1911-1996

Alexander George Ogston, the first of six children, was born on 30 January 1911, in Bombay, India, where his father, Walter Henry Ogston, of firmly Aberdonian ancestry, was a businessman for twenty years. His mother, nee Josephine Elizabeth Carter, fourteen years younger than her husband, trained at the Froebel Educational Institute as a teacher, won silver and gold medals at University College, London, studying biological sciences, but married before completing her degree.
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