Asher Korner

Asher Korner (7 February 1929 – 22 September 1971) was a British biochemist. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained his PhD in 1957, Korner became Director of Studies in Biochemistry at Clare College, where he was made a fellow in 1960 and served as a lecturer 1960–1967. During this time, Korner served as PhD advisor to the future Nobel laureate Tim Hunt. In 1967, Korner moved to the University of Sussex, where he became the university's first professor in biochemistry.^[1]

He is commemorated at the University of Sussex through the Korner Travelling Fellowship Fund.^[2]

References

1. Rubinstein, William D.; Jolles, Michael A.; Rubinstein, Hilary L., eds. (2011), "Asher Korner", The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 533
2. "Korner Travelling Fellowship Fund". Retrieved 2015-12-26.