Memories of Gregorio Weber

by Hal Dixon

Although I never knew Gregorio that well, I came close to becoming one of his students, in that he invited me to do my PhD with him. He lent me his own PhD Thesis so that I could see the importance of the polarization of fluorescence. But I had been very taken with hormones, and ended up working on corticotrophin.

There are few people now who could help tell you about those days at King’s College or at the Cambridge Biochemistry Department. One person who I can think knew him much better is Fred Sanger. I am sorry that I cannot help more. Gregorio’s highly original advance was most impressive. His early papers are to be found in the bound copies of all papers from the Department.