Hal Dixon

Henry Berkeley Franks Dixon (16 May 1928 – 30 July 2008) was an Irish biochemist, educator, academic administrator, and Life Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Early life and education Born in Dublin, the youngest son of Henry Horatio Dixon, he was interested in science from a young age; his discovery of an optical illusion arising from binocular vision was described by his father in Nature Magazine when he was only nine years old. achieving firsts in Part I and Part II and specialising in biochemistry. He remained at King's for his graduate studies on peptide hormones, In 1954 he was appointed as University Demonstrator in biochemistry, and in 1959 was promoted to University Lecturer. From 1964 to 1965, he worked at the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology in Moscow as part of a UK-USSR exchange program. His interests included the pH-dependence of enzyme-catalysed reactions, arsenic biochemistry, protein modification and other aspects of enzymology. His particular interest in applications of methods from organic chemistry to biochemistry