Albert Charles Chibnall FRS was a British biochemist known for his work on the nitrogen metabolism of plants.
14 Facts About Albert Chibnall
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Albert Charles Chibnall was born on 28 January 1894 in Hammersmith, the second son of George William Chibnall, bakery owner, and Kate Butler.
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Albert Chibnall started off studying for Natural Sciences Tripos Part I, but this was cut short by the advent of war.
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Albert Chibnall quickly applied for a commission, and spent three years serving mainly in the Army Service Corps.
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In 1919 Chibnall was taken on by Professor H B Baker to do research for the newly instituted PhD at Imperial College, but he later switched to study the nitrogenous constituents of green leaves with Professor S B Schryver, whom he succeeded in 1929.
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Albert Chibnall secured a place with the leading expert on plant proteins, T B Osborne, at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station.
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Albert Chibnall was appointed the second Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry at Cambridge University in 1943.
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Albert Chibnall resigned in 1949 since he felt it was a role more suited to a medically qualified biochemist.
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Albert Chibnall's notable students included Fred Sanger, who was a double winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
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Albert Chibnall suggested Sanger work on methods of identifying the terminal amino acid of Insulin.
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Albert Chibnall then declined to have his name on Sanger's paper on the grounds that Sanger should get all the credit.
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Albert Chibnall married his cousin Helen Isabel Cicely Chibnall, known as Cicely, in 1931.
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In 1947 Albert Chibnall married Marjorie McCallum Morgan, whom he had met after corresponding about one of his historical interests.
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Albert Charles Chibnall died in Cambridge on 10 January 1988; he was cremated on the 18th.