Background
He was born in Sheffield in 1922, the son of Professor James Kenner.
He was born in Sheffield in 1922, the son of Professor James Kenner.
And Doctor of Philosophy degrees under Lord Todd at Manchester and Cambridge Universities in United Kingdom.
During his childhood, he went to Didsbury preparatory school in 1928 and moved to Manchester Grammar School in 1934. He was appointed to the first Heath Harrison Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Liverpool 1957-1976. He did his Master of Science He was faculty member at the Cambridge University for 15 years before moving to the University of Liverpool in 1957 as Heath Harrison Professor of Organic Chemistry.
George Kenner contributed to many areas of organic chemistry.
The Kenner award for graduate students was established in 2006 to commemorate Professor.
George Kenner contributed to many areas of organic chemistry. In 1960"s George Kenner along with Resident Advisor Gregory was involved in the seminal discovery and synthesis of peptide hormone gastrin at the University of Liverpool. Gastrin is involved in secretion of gastric acid (HCl) in the stomach. The first chemical synthesis of a lysozyme like enzyme of 129 amino acids using classical approach was attempted by Professor George W. Kenner and his group at the University of Liverpool in 1970"son This was the largest protein synthesized in the laboratory using the classical peptide synthesis up to that time. He carefully planned synthesis of this lysozyme analogue, of proven purity, containing 129 amino acid residues joined in a rigorously defined order. His effort led to the synthesis of this 129 amino acid protein. His dream of making a wholly synthetic lysozyme was only achieved in 2007. The synthesis of functionally active lysozyme was done 30 years later by Steve B. Kent and his group at the University of Chicago. The value of George Kenner"s contributions to the methodology of peptide chemistry had profoundly influence on the developments in the fields. Foreign example it led to the synthesis of antigens of defined geometry for immunological studies. George Kenner"s work has been recognized by the awards of Meldola Medal (1951) and the Corday-Morgan Medal (1957) and in distinguished lectureships Tilden (1955), Simonsen (1972) and Pedler (1976) of the Chemical Society of whose Perkin Division he was President from 1974 to 1976. He was also President of Section Bachelor of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1974. Elected into the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1964 he was the Society"s Bakerian Lecturer for 1976 and was elected to a Royal Society Research Professorship in 1976. George Kenner Prize and Lectureship was established in 1979 with a sum of £12,000 raised by subscription to commemorate the late Professor Games Workshop Kenner, Heath Harrison Professor of Organic Chemistry from 1957 to 1976 and Royal Society Professor from 1977 to 1978. The duty of the Lectureship recipient is to deliver lectures on subjects related to the study of Organic Chemistry at the University. Several famous organic chemists were awarded this honor and these include Gilbert Stork, Ryoji Noyori, Steven V. Ley, Albert Eschenmoser, John George Adami, de Duilio Arigoni, Jean-Marie Lehn et cetera The Kenner award for graduate students was established in 2006 to commemorate Professor George W. Kenner who spent almost 21 years in the Chemistry department at the University of Liverpool as the Heath Harrison Professor of Organic Chemistry. The award is annually given to the first-year Doctor of Philosophy student in the organic section of the Department of Chemistry who is the best in both academic and research performance.
Royal Society.
