From left to right: Bill Rathmell, Marijana Plesnicar, ˘ Robin Hill, Dana Sofrova and Derek Bendall on the steps of the ´ building in which cytochrome f was discovered. Photograph taken in summer 1970.
derek bendall, born 1930
Researcher on Photosynthesis
Derek Bendall carried out pioneering work at the University of Cambridge on photosynthetic electron transport, particularly on protein– protein interactions, cytochromes, and cyclic electron transport, as well as on other topics including the biochemistry of tea. He was a keen musician and a gifted gardener, a devoted family man, and a delightful colleague and friend. His father was a Master Draper, and his mother was a school teacher and keen naturalist. He graduated from King’s College Cambridge with a first in biochemistry in 1953.
Archived in December 2020, with acknowledgement and thanks, from Photosynthesis Research, 2015.