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Eggleston, Leonard Victor, 1920 - 1974

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Dates

  • Existence: 1920 - 1974

Biography

Len Eggleston was born in Sheffield and was educated at Marlcliffe Intermediate School. Initially employed as a laboratory assistant in the Department of Physics at the University of Sheffield, he moved in January 1936 at the age of 16 to join biochemist Hans Krebs in the Department of Pharmacology as Krebs's first technician and he remained with Kreb's research team until his death in January 1974. Until the end of the Second World War he was Krebs's only "semi-permanent (but eventually permanent) technical assistant". Eggleston was therefore active in the Department during the work on the Citric Acid Cycle (the Krebs Cycle) for which Krebs later received a Nobel Prize, and the war-time nutritional work of the Sorby Research Institute. His aptitude for biochemical research is evidenced by the fact that from modest beginnings many research papers came to be published under Eggleston's name, in collaboration with Krebs or other members of the team and, later, also by Eggleston as sole author.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Eggleston Notebooks

 Fonds
Reference code: 253
Scope and Contents A set of notebooks recording biochemical research carried out by Leonard Victor Eggleston, research assistant to the Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Hans Krebs, between the years 1941-1974. This collection contains a set of 20 notebooks and Eggleston's BSc thesis. The notebooks commence during the Second World War, when Krebs was engaged as part of the war effort in work on nutrition at Sheffield University's Sorby Research Institute, and continue in the post-war period at the universities of...
Dates: 1941 - 1974

Notebook of Leonard Eggleston, 1962 - 1971

 Item — Box Hems Box 3: Series 307/1; Series 307/2
Reference code: 307/2/1
Scope and Contents

Eggleston also worked as a research assistant for Sir Hans Krebs from 1941-1974. Notebook includes index at the front, and loose leaves. Further notebooks belonging to Eggleston can be round in the Eggleston Notebooks Collection (Ref: 253)

Dates: 1962 - 1971

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