Background
Peters, Rudolph Albert was born on April 13, 1889 in London. Son of Albert Edward and Agnes Malvina (Watts) Peters.
Peters, Rudolph Albert was born on April 13, 1889 in London. Son of Albert Edward and Agnes Malvina (Watts) Peters.
Student, King's College, London. Master of Arts, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, England, 1914. Doctor of Medicine, 1919.
Master of Arts (by decree), Oxon College, 1923. Doctor of Medicine (honorary), Liege University, 1950. Doctor of Medicine (honorary), University Paris, 1952.
Doctor of Medicine (honorary), University Amsterdam, 1953. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Cincinnati, 1953. Doctor of Science (honorary), London University, 1954.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Leeds University, 1959. Doctor of Science (honorary), Australian National University, 1961. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Glasgow University, 1963.
Dunn lecturer, senior demonstrator biochemistry, Cambridge U.
Whitley professor biochemistry, University of Oxford, 1923-1954;
fellow Trinity College, University of Oxford, 1925-1954. Past head biochemistry department agricultural research council Institute Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge U. Dunham lecturer, Harvard University, 1946-1947, Herman Leo Loeb lecturer St. Saint Louis University, 1947, Christian Herter lecturer New York University, 1947, Croonian lecturer Royal Society, 1952, Dohme lecturer School Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1954.
Visiting professor Dalhousie U., Halifax, Canada, 1963. Member Medical Research Council, 1946-1950. Member sci.adv. council Military College of Science, 1947-1950, Ministry of Supply, 1950-1953.
Fellow Royal Society London, Royal Society Edinbrough, Royal College Physicians, Royal Society Pathologists. Honorary fellow Royal Society Medicine, British Nutrition Society, Association Clinical Biochemists, Biochemistry and Phsyiol. Societies, Society Philmathique of Paris, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and Letters, Belgian Royal Academy, Accademia Nazionale del Lincei of Rome, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Society Biological Chemists, American Institute Nutrition.
Member Conseil International des Unions Scientifiques (president 1958-1961).
Married Frances W. Vérel, 1917. Children: Rudolph Vérel, Francis Raymond.