Richard Perham

Richard Nelson Perham, FRS, FMedSci, FRSA (27 April 1937 – 14 February 2015), was Professor of biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, and Master of St John's College, Cambridge 2004–07.^[2][3] He was also editor-in-chief of FEBS Journal (Federation of European Biochemical Societies) from 1998 to 2013.^[4][5]

Richard Perham FRS FMedSci
Born	Richard Nelson Perham (1937-04-27)27 April 1937 Brentford, Middlesex, England
Died	14 February 2015(2015-02-14) (aged 77) Cambridge, England
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society (1984) Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts[when?] Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences[when?]
Scientific career
Fields	Biochemistry
Institutions	St John's College, Cambridge; Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge; MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Doctoral students	Nigel Scrutton[1]
Website	www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/news/richardperham

Education

Perham attended Latymer Upper School, then St John's College, Cambridge, where he completed his MA (Cantab), PhD and ScD.^[6] Perham then went on to become a MRC scholar at Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), also at Cambridge.^[2][7]

Research and career

Perham was known for his contributions to the chemistry of proteins in multimeric assemblies.^[8][9]

Societies

Perham was a member of the following organisations and societies:^[2]

• 1965 Biochemical Society member
• 1983 EMBO Member
• 1986 Royal Institution for Great Britain member
• 1992 Academia Europaea member

Awards and fellowships

His awards include:^[2]

• 1971 (EMBO) fellowship Max Planck Institute for Medical Research (Max-Planck-Institut für Medizinische Forschung), Heidelberg
• 1984 Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)^[10]
• 1988 Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)
• 1993 Max Planck Research Prize
• 1998 Novartis Medal and Prize of the Biochemical Society
• 2000 Silver Medal of the Italian Biochemical Society
• 2005 Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci)
• 2008 Edman Prize International Association of Protein Structure and Proteomics (IAPSAP)
• 2011 Diplôme d'Honneur of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies

Selected bibliography

• Perham, Richard N (1975). Instrumentation in amino acid sequence analysis. London New York: Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-551250-3.
• Perham, Richard N; Chapman, Stephen; Scrutton, Nigel (2002). Flavins and flavoproteins 2002: proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium, St. John's College, University of Cambridge, UK, July 14–18, 2002. Berlin: Rudolf Weber, Agency for Scientific Publications. ISBN 978-3-00-010229-5.
• Perham, Richard N; Baumeister, Wolfgang; Johnson, Louise; Steven, Alasdair (1975). Instrumentation in amino acid sequence analysis. London New York: Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-551250-3.

Personal life

Perham was married to Canadian cell biologist Nancy Lane Perham, and they had two children together.^[6]