Quentin Gibson

Professor Quentin Gibson
Born	Quentin Howieson Gibson (1918-12-09)9 December 1918 Aberdeen, Scotland
Died	6 March 2011(2011-03-06) (aged 92)
Citizenship	British, American
Education	Queen's University Belfast
Spouse	Audrey Jane Pinsent
Children	4
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society (1969)[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Biochemistry of heme proteins
Institutions	University of Sheffield Cornell University University of Pennsylvania
Notable students	Keith Moffat[2]

Quentin Howieson Gibson

Research

Hemoglobin

Gibson started his career with studies of hemoglobin,^{[7] [8]} and continued with much other work on heme proteins.

Medical and physiological work

In keeping with his medical qualifications, much of Gibson's early work^{[9] [10]} had medical or physiological relevance.^[11]

Cooperativity

During the period when protein and enzyme cooperativity was at the center of biochemical interest Gibson studied it in the context of abnormal hemoglobins.^{[12] [13]}

Rapid reactions

Gibson made major contributions to the development of methods for studying rapid reactions,^[14] and their application to hemoglobin.^[15]

Other proteins

Other work concerned enzymes such as "diaphorase",^[16][17] glucose oxidase,^[18] cytochrome oxidase^[19][20] and peroxidase.^[21]

Thermodynamics

Much of Gibson's work concerned questions of thermodynamics and equilibria, and in that context he participated in discussions about how to present thermodynamic data.^[22]

Awards and honours

Gibson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1969.^[1] He was also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and an associate editor of the Journal of Biological Chemistry from 1975 to 1994.^[23]

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