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- Gilbert Smithson Adair FRS (1896–1979) fue un bioquímico pionero de las proteínas quien usó mediciones de presión osmótica para establecer que la hemoglobina era una proteína tetramérica bajo condiciones fisiológicas. Esa conclusión lo llevó a ser el primero en identificar uniones cooperativas, en el contexto de las uniones al oxígeno de la hemoglobina. Adair era aborigen de Whitehaven, Inglaterra, y fue en gran parte escolarizado en casa. En 1915, entró al King's College, Cambridge, se graduó con un título de primera clase en ciencias naturales en 1917. Durante la guerra, trabajó en la Junta de Investigación de Alimentos, que buscaba métodos para conservar los alimentos en buques de carga. En 1920, se convirtió en un estudiante de investigación en el King's College, y fue nombrado miembro oficial en 1928, otorgándole cinco años de subsidios para dedicarse a la investigación. En 1931, se convirtió en director asistente del Laboratorio Fisiológico de Cambridge. Fue profesor adjunto de Biofísica desde 1945 hasta su jubilación en 1963. (es)
- Gilbert Smithson Adair FRS (1896–1979) was an early protein scientist who used osmotic pressure measurements to establish that haemoglobin was a tetramer under physiological conditions. This conclusion led him to be the first to identify cooperative binding, in the context of oxygen binding to haemoglobin. Gilbert Smithson Adair was born on 21 September 1896 in Whitehaven, son of Harold and Anna Mary Adair (née Jackson), who were Quakers. Gilbert and his sister Anna were initially taught at home by a governess. Later, Gilbert was taught at the Quaker Bootham School, where he was a boarder. The family, meanwhile had moved to Egremont, where Harold Adair was managing director of Wyndham Mining Company Ltd. an iron ore mine.Adair entered King's College, Cambridge from 1915 to 1917, gaining a first in Natural Sciences. He was soon employed by the Food Investigation Board, a wartime research group set up by the DSIR to determine how to prevent wastage of food, particularly fish, meat, fruits, etc. on cargo ships. In 1920, he became a research student at King's College, and was made an official Fellow in 1928, granting him five years to devote to research. In 1931, he became assistant director of the Physiological Laboratory in Cambridge. He was a Reader in Biophysics from 1945 until his retirement in 1963. Adair was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1939. He married Muriel Elaine Robinson in Cambridge in 1931. Muriel had entered Girton College in 1918, and went on to obtain a research fellowship at Newnham. She died on 2 January 1975. As an incidental historical note, Adair provided the purified haemoglobin that Max Perutz used for the first structure determination of any protein (by X-ray crystallography). Gilbert Smithson Adair died in Cambridge on 22 June 1979. (en)
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