Crichton, Robert
[UCL]
Hagen, Fred
Cornelis Veeger, or Cees (pronounced as ‘case’) for everyone except officialdom, was born in The Netherlands on 26 August 1929. Coming from a modest background, he worked his way through college at the University of Amsterdam, where he graduated in 1960 with biochemist E. C. Slater on a thesis entitled ‘The reaction mechanism of diaphorase’. This pig heart enzyme is nowadays known as the flavoprotein dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase, part of the pyruvate dehydrogenase multi‐enzyme complex. Only 4 years later he was appointed full professor to a newly created Chair and Department of Biochemistry at Wageningen University where he worked until his retirement in 1995. [...]
Référence bibliographique |
Crichton, Robert ; Hagen, Fred. Professor Cees Veeger and the early years of bioinorganic chemistry. In: FEBS Journal, Vol. 285, no.9, p. 1560-1562 (2018) |
Permalien |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/220938 |