Part 2 (Obituaries) - King's College - University of Cambridge

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OBITUARIES
FREDERICK BERNHEIM (1925) was an American biochemist, nominated
for a Nobel Prize for his research leading to effective treatments for
tuberculosis. Frederick was born in New Jersey on 18 August 1905. He
attended Harvard and then came to King’s, gaining his PhD in 1928.The same
year he married Mary L C Hare, a graduate student from Newnham College
who discovered the enzyme monoamine oxidase.
After short spells at both Munich and the Johns Hopkins Medical School,
Frederick became a member of the original faculty of the Duke University
School of Medicine at Durham, North Carolina, in 1930, together with Mary
(known as Molly). Frederick was Professor of Pharmacology at Duke from
1930 to 1975, and during this time undertook research – including his
studies of the metabolism of the tubercle bacillus which led to his Nobel Prize
nomination in 1940 – and published numerous scientific papers.
In 1947 Frederick learned to fly aircraft, an interest he shared with Molly.
The couple were also passionate about nature conservation. In 1972 they
donated 90 acres of land along the River Eno, near Durham, to enable the
creation of the Eno River State Park, and added to this in 1986 with a further
donation of 26 acres to assist with ongoing conservation efforts. Frederick
died in Durham on 10 October 1992.
ARTHUR ERNEST BILLINGTON (1936) was born in Hythe near
Southampton on 9 September 1917. Before coming to Cambridge he was
educated at Cotham School in Bristol. At King’s he was awed by the Chapel,
and the music that filled it interested him as much as the stained-glass
windows and the architecture. After graduating in Chemistry, Arthur took a
post as a works chemist at Chivers working with frozen and canned foods. His
time at Chivers did not last long, as the outbreak of the war led him to serve
his country in the Department of Armament Supply at the Admiralty, where
he worked on high explosives and propellants.
At the close of the war Arthur returned to the food industry. In June 1945, a
month after V-E day, Arthur married Shirley Harrison who would remain by