Background
He was born in Ipswich, the son of Walter and Violet Woods, and educated at Northgate School, Ipswich.
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Education
Trinity Hall.
Career
He entered Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating in 1933 and gaining a Doctor of Philosophy there in 1937. In 1939 he joined the Medical Research Council Unit for Bacterial Chemistry, working at the Middlesex Hospital, London. After World World War II, during which he had been engaged on secret work, he became reader in Microbiology at Oxford University and in 1955 accepted the new Iveagh Chair of Chemical Microbiology there.
1952 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society His nomination reads:.
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Royal Society.
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November 6, 1964 (aged 52)
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Fellow of the Royal Society; Marjory Stephenson Prize Marjory Stephenson Prize
The Marjory Stephenson Prize is the principal prize of the Society for General Microbiology, awarded for an outstanding contribution of current importance in microbiology.The Marjory Stephenson Prize is the principal prize of the Society for General Microbiology, awarded for an outstanding contribution of current importance in microbiology.