Sir Rudolph Albert Peters (13 April 1889, Kensington - 29 January 1982) was a British biochemist. Events 1111 - Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1204 - The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople Year 1889 ( MDCCCLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Kensington is a district of West London, England within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, located west of Charing Cross. Events 904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Antipope Christopher. Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1935. The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as The Royal Society, is a Learned society for science that was founded in 1660 Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. His effort investigating the mechanism of arsenic war gases was deemed crucial in maintaining battlefield effectiveness facing the threat of lewisite attacks. An Oxford scientific team led by Peters developed an antidote for lewisite called British Anti-Lewisite (BAL) on July 21, 1940. Lewisite is a Chemical compound from a chemical family called Arsines While it is colorless and odorless when pure Lewisite is usually found as an oily yellow or
After the war, he subsequently carried on his research on pyruvate metabolism, focussing particularly on the toxicity of fluoroacetate. The fact that fluoroacetate in itself is far less toxic that the metabolite formed after transformation in the body led him to coin the term "lethal synthesis" [1] in 1951. The publication was titled "Croonian Lecture: Lethal Synthesis", which appeared in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, Vol. 139, No. 895 (Feb. 28, 1952), pp. 143-170
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