Norman Pirie
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| Born | 1 July 1907 Rothamsted Experimental Station |
Norman Wingate Pirie
Frederick Bawden, discovered that a virus can be crystallized by isolating tomato bushy stunt virus in 1936. This was an important milestone in understanding DNA and RNA.[2]
Early and personal life
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Pirie was born in
Hastings Grammar School, and then from 1921 to 1925 at Rydal School in Colwyn Bay. He studied natural sciences (biochemistry) at Emmanuel College, Cambridge
from 1925 to 1929, and became a demonstrator after graduating.
He married fellow biochemist Antoinette Patey in 1931. They had a son and a daughter.[4] Like his wife, he was an atheist, and was concerned about nuclear weapons. He served as chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) scientific committee for several years. His wife died in 1991. He died in Harpenden in 1997, survived by his two children.[4]
Career
He worked at
leaf proteins continued into the 1970s.[4]
He was elected a
beta carotene in leaf proteins, and the use of leaf proteins in new foods for humans.[6]
Publications
Pirie was the author of over 200 scientific publications and book chapters. He continued to publish well into his retirement.[5] His publications include:
- Pirie, N. W. 1994. The bulk extraction and quality of leaf protein in: Linskens, H-F. and Jackson, J. F. (ed.) Modern methods of plant analysis: vegetables and vegetable products Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
- Pirie, N. W. 1987. An economical unit for pressing juice from fibrous pulps. Journal of Agricultural Engineering Research 38 pp. 217-222.
- Pirie, N. W. 1983. New foods - proving leaf proteins worth. Nature 301 (5895) pp. 20-20.
- Pirie, N. W. 1969. The production and use of leaf protein. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 28 (1) pp. 85-91.
- Bawden, F. C. and Pirie, N. W. 1959. The infectivity and inactivation of nucleic acid preparations from tobacco mosaic virus. Journal of General Microbiology 21 (2) pp. 438-456.
- Bawden, F. C. and Pirie, N. W. 1943. Methods for the purification of tomato bushy stunt and tobacco mosaic viruses. Biochemical Journal 37 (1) pp. 66-70.
- Bawden, F. C., Pirie, N. W., Bernal, J. D. and Fankuchen, I. 1936. Liquid crystalline substances from virus-infected plants. Nature. 138 pp. 1051-1052
References
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- PMID 9177338.
- ^ Pierpoint, W. S. (22 April 1997). "Obituary: Norman Pirie". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 21 June 2022. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
- ^ a b c David F. Smith, ‘Pirie, Norman Wingate [Bill] (1907–1997)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 accessed 23 Dec 2013
- ^ a b "Norman Wingate (Bill) Pirie". Rothamsted Research.
- ^ Pirie, N W (1991). "Food utilisation of leaf protein in Europe, America and Africa". Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Leaf Protein Research LEAF-PRO '89: 188–192.
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