Graham Gooday

Prof Graham William Gooday FRSE FIB (1942-2002) was a British molecular biologist. He was Professor of Microbiology at Aberdeen University. He presented the inaugural Fleming Prize Lecture for the Microbiological Society. He served as Director of the Institute of Marine Biology.

He was born on 19 February 1942 in Colchester the son of William Arnold Gooday and has wife Edith May Beeton.

He studied Biology at Bristol University graduating BSc in 1963. He took a year out working as a teacher for Voluntary Service Overseas in Kenema in Sierra Leone. He returned as a research fellow at the University of Leeds as a postgraduate later receiving a doctorate (PhD) in 1968 (from Bristol).

He lectured at Aberdeen University from 1972 and was made a Professor in 1986.

In 1989 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were John M. Kosterlitz, J H Burnett, J E Fothergill, James Mackay Shewan, C H Gimmingham, F W Robertson, G M Dunnet and Patrick Thomas Grant.

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