Alan Fersht
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| Born | Alan Roy Fersht 21 April 1943 London |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
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| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Intramolecular catalysis of ester hydrolysis (1968) |
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| Known for | Protein folding |
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| Spouse | Marilyn Persell (m. 1966) |
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Sir Alan Roy Fersht, FRS, FMedSci (born 21 April 1943) is a British chemist at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology and an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. He works on protein folding. Since October 2012, he has been Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Fersht was born on 21 April 1943. He was educated at Sir George Monoux Grammar School, an all-boys grammar school in Walthamstow, London. He went on to study at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was awarded his PhD degree in 1968.
Fersht was Wolfson Research Professor of the Royal Society and Professor of Biological Chemistry at Imperial College London from 1978 to 1988 and was Herchel Smith Professor of Organic Chemistry at Cambridge from 1988 to 2010. He was the Director of the Cambridge Centre for Protein Engineering from 1990 to 2010. He is a Fellow of both Gonville and Caius College and Imperial College.
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