Alan Rushton Battersby

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The 1989 Wolf Prize in Chemistry: Duilio Arigoni and Alan R. Battersby for their fundamental contributions to the elucidation of the mechanism of enzymic reactions and of the biosynthesis of natural products, in particular the pigments of life.

Alan Batterby was born in 1925 and studied at the Universities of Manchester and St Andrews (PhD 1949). He gained a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship (1950-1952) for study in the United States at the Rockefeller Institute and the University of Illinois. He then joined the faculty at the University of Bristol and initiated his research in biosynthesis. In 1962 he accepted a Chair at the University of Liverpool then, in 1969, he moved to a Chair at Cambridge, finally holding the Cambridge 1702 Chair. He became Emeritus Professor in 1992 and continued both experimental research and his writing.
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