(Richard) Alan Morton
(1899-1977), BiochemistSitter in 3 portraits
by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, 28 March 1950
NPG x190730
by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, 28 March 1950
NPG x190731
by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, 28 March 1950
NPG x190732
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Conroy
19 October 2022, 12:21
RICHARD ALAN MORTON, Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry in The University of Liverpool, an outstanding British biochemist of his generation,
died peacefully at his home on January 21 [1977] after a short illness; he was seventy seven. Born in Liverpool of Welsh parents, Professor Morton received his early education at Oulton School. After a short time in the Army he entered Liverpool University as an undergraduate in 1919 and, apart from a sabbatical year in the United States as Visiting Professor at Ohio State University in 1931 , remained there until he retired in 1966. He graduated in chemistry and worked for his Ph.D. under Professor E. C. C. Baly, a pioneer in the application of spectroscopy to chemical problems; in 1924 he was appointed special lecturer in spectroscopy in the Chemistry Department where he remained until 1944, when, with great foresight, the University elected him Johnston Professor of Biochemistry. He held this chair, the first established chair of biochemistry in the UK, with great distinction for twenty-two years.