Colin Ratledge
British biochemist
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Colin Ratledge FRSC FRSB (born 9 October 1936) is a British biochemist who was Professor of Microbial Biochemistry at the University of Hull from 1983 to 2004.[1]
Colin Ratledge | |
|---|---|
| Born | 9 October 1936 |
| Alma mater | University of Manchester |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biochemistry |
| Institutions | University of Hull |
| Doctoral students | Sarah Gilbert |
He was educated at Bury High School,[1] and graduated from University of Manchester with a BSc in 1957 and a PhD in 1962.[2] He joined the University of Hull as a lecturer in 1967 and was head of the Department of Biochemistry there from 1986 to 1988.
He was editor of Biotechnology Letters from 1996 to 2017.[3] He received the Stephen Chang Award from the American Oil Chemists' Society in 2011.[2] In 2015 the Colin Ratledge Center for Microbial Lipids opened at Shandong University of Technology. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 2018.[4]
He has an h-index of 58 according to Semantic Scholar.[5]
