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Chibnall was born and educated in England, joined the Army Service Corps at the outbreak of World War I and transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in 1917.
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Albert Chibnall
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From 1917 to 1919, he was attached to the Royal Flying Corps, in Egypt and in Salonika. Following the war he became a research student at Imperial College, London, working with, and eventually succeeding South.B. Shryver as Professor of Biochemistry. He also studied for two years at Yale in the laboratory of Technology B. Osborne, an expert in plant chemistry
His work focused on plant biochemistry but he was appointed the second Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry at Cambridge University in 1943.
He resigned in 1949 since he felt it was a role more suited to a medically qualified biochemist.
In her company, Chibnall developed an interest in medieval history. In 1965, he published Sherington - Fiefs and Fields of a Buckinghamshire Village, a study of his ancestral home.
He also published Richard de Badew and the University of Cambridge, 1315-1340.
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Royal Society.
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United Kingdom