Charles Nicholas Hales

Charles Nicholas "Nick" Hales (25 April 1935 – 15 September 2005) was an English physician, biochemist, diabetologist, pathologist, and professor of clinical biochemistry.

Biography After education at King Edward VI Grammar School, Stafford, C. Nicholas Hales matriculated in 1953 at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating BA (Cantab.) in 1956. He studied medicine at University College Hospital Medical School, graduating MB BChir in 1959. At University College Hospital he was a house physician under Max Rosenheim. Hales returned to the University of Cambridge for graduate study in biochemistry. He received in 1964 his PhD under the supervision of Philip Randle.

Hales was a member of the editorial boards of many journals, including Clinical Science, Diabetologia, Journal of Endocrinology, Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, Molecular Aspects of Medicine, and Molecular and Cellular Probes. He was a member of research grant committees of the British Diabetic Association from 1978 to 1982, the Medical Research Council from 1986 to 1990, and the British Heart Foundation from 1992 to 1997.

In 1959 in Westminster, London, he married Janet May Moss. They had two sons, Paul (1963–1995) and Timothy (born 1964), before their marriage ended in divorce in the late 1970s. In 1978 C. Nicholas Hales married Margaret Griffiths. They had a daughter Kathryn (born 1979).

Awards and honours 1992 — FRS 1992 — Croonian Lecturer (of the RCP) on The aetiology of non-insulin-dependent diabetes 1995 — Baly Medal 1998 — Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci)