Obituary - Professor Hamish Macdonald Keir, BSc, PhD, DSc, CBiol, FIBiol, CChem, FRSC, FRSE (1931–2013)

摘要

Hamish Keir was born in Moffat in Ayrshire on 5 September 1931. He was educated at Ayr Academy, where he excelled academically and also played for the first teams in rugby and cricket. His higher education was at the University of Glasgow where he obtained a BSc and a PhD in the relatively new science of biochemistry. He subsequently undertook postgraduate research both in Glasgow and at Yale University in the USA from 1958 to 1960.