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To View a PDF Copy of the Book 100 Years of Biochemistry at Uoft 100 Years of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto 1908 - 2008 An Illustrated History by Marian A. Packham University Professor Emeritus ii 100 YEARS OF BIOCHEMISTRY AT U OF T 1908-2008 MARIAN A. PACKHAM arian Packham is one of the world's leading authorities on the biochem istry and Mphysiology of blood platelets, publishing close to 300 papers and is credited with major contriburions to the understanding of plarelets and their role in heart attacks and strokes. She received her B.A. in Biochemistry from the University of Toronto in 1949 and her Ph.D. in 1954 under the supervision of Gordon Butler. From 1955 to 1963 she was a Part-time Senior Fellow/Lecturer in the Department. Prof Packham re-joined the Department in 1966 as a Lecturer. She is a University Professor Emeritus and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Prof Packham is also the official historian of the Department of Biochemistry. Marian Packham with biography orRosalind Franklin • 100 YEARS OF BIOCHEMISTRY AT U OF T 1908-2008 Printed in Canada by University of Toronto Press 200S ISBN 97S-0-7727 -1700-9 Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Packham, Marian A. (Marian Aitchison), 1927- 100 years of biochemistry at the University of Toronto, 1905-200S : an illustrated history / by Marian A. Packham. ISBN 97S-0-7727-1700-9 1. University of Toronto. Dept. of Biochemistry--History. I. University of Toronto. Dept. of Biochemistry II. Title. III. Title: One hundred years of biochemistry at the University of Toronto, 1905-200S. QP511.5.C3P33200S 572'.0711713541 C200S-902S45-7 Copyright © 2008 University of Toronto Text iv 100 YEARS OF BIOCHEMISTRY AT U OF T 1908-2008 PREFACE vii CHAPTER 7 Professors in the Departments of CHAPTER I Biochemistry and Zymology 65 The Founding of the Department of Biochemistry CHAPTER 8 Fellows, Lecturers and Senior Tutors 85 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 9 Chairs of the Departments of Biochemistry and Research Associates, Research Assistants, Zymology 3 and Technicians 86 CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 10 The Early Years (1907-1960) Business Officers, Administrative Assistants, AB. Macallum 4 and Secretaries 89 A Hunter 7 CHAPTER II T.B. Robertson 9 Lectureships 91 H.B. Speakman 10 H.Wasteneys II CHAPTER 12 AM.Wynne 18 Undergraduate Teaching 94 CHAPTER 13 CHAPTER 4 Undergraduate Student Awards 100 The Middle Years (1960 -199 I) C.S. Hanes 21 CHAPTER 14 G.E. Connell 23 Graduate Programs over the Years 104 G.R.Wiliiams 26 K.J. Dorrington 30 CHAPTER 15 M.A Packham 32 Graduate Student Awards 108 H. Schachter 33 WThompson 37 CHAPTER 16 Graduate Students 112 CHAPTER 5 Into the New Millennium (1991-2008) CHAPTER 17 P.N. Lewis 41 Epilogue 144 D.B. Williams 49 D.E. Isenman 50 APPENDIX R. Reithmeier 51 List of materials archived in the Department of Biochemistry 146 CHAPTER 6 Charting the Growth in Biochemistry 61 TABLES AND FIGURES 148 100 YEARS OF BIOCHEMISTRY AT U OF T 1908-2008 v \ ) n 1973 the Chair of the Department ofBiochemistry, The office staff has helped me greatly by providing Prof G. Ronald Williams, asked me to write a access to information in the departmental office, and I am Ishort history of the Department for submission indebted to the records kept by the many professors who to Prof Robin Harris, the University Historian, who have been Graduate Coordinators of the Department. The was writing a sesquicentennial history of the University staff at the University Archives have been knowledgeable of Toronto. Although no book by Prof Harris was and efficient in making their records available to me. The published, the history of our Department that I wrote current Chair ofthe Department, Prof Reinhart Reithmeier kindled my interest and since that time I have collected reviewed early versions of the manuscript and made many documents and memorabilia. helpful suggestions and additions. I am deeply indebted My involvement with the Department goes back to to Prof David Williams for combing through his 4000 + September, 1947, when I took my first biochemistry digitized pictures and scanning many other pictures to lectures and laboratory classes as a third year undergraduate illustrate the text. Thanks are also due to David !senman student in Physiology and Biochemistry (P&B). With for the graphs, and to Matthew Cheng, an undergraduate the exception of three years, I have been associated with biochemistry student who designed the logo. Everyone the Department ever since - as undergraduate, graduate I have asked for help has provided it willingly, and I am student, demonstrator, fellow, lecturer, and professor grateful to you all. Being part of the Department since (assistant, associate, full, and University). I have overlapped 1947 has been a wonderful experience. with all except 7 of the 120 professors who have held (or hold) appointments in our Department, and I taught at Marian A. Packham least 12 of them when they were students. University Professor Emeritus 100 YEARS OF BIOCHEMISTRY AT U OF T 1908-2008 vii The Founding of the Department of Biochemistry -P- here is no doubt that the Professor of Physiology, Evidence for 1908-09: In this academic year, the Report Archibald Byron Macallum, was the founder of of the Board of Governors lists T. G. Brodie as Professor the Department of Biochemistry, but the actual of Physiology at a salary of $4,000 and Macallum as date that should be given is difficult to establish. The Professor of Physiology and Physiological Chemistry. weight of the evidence favours 1907-08, although dates Macallum had been instrumental in recruiting Brodie, given by different sources range from 1906 to 1910. judging from Macallum's letters to President Falconer. Evidence for 1906-07: Macallum's entry in American The 'Corporate Name Authority' states that the Men of Science, 1927, page 609 (which one would Department of Biochemistry was established in 1909 surmise he himself had submitted) lists him as Prof. as the Chair of Biochemistry in the Department of Physiology 1891-1906 and Prof. of Biochemistry of Physiology, and that it became an independent 1906-1917. The Report of the Board of Governors of department in July of 1910. the University for the year 1906-07 lists him for the In 1910-11, the Calendar heading changed to first time as Professor of Physiology and Physiological 'Physiology and Biochemistry' and for the first time an Chemistry (previously he was listed as only Professor Honours course in Physiology and Biochemistry (P&B) of Physiology). Also in 1906-07, the Calendar lists, for was listed. the first time, a course in Bio-chemistry for students of In 1911-12, there was a separate Calendar heading Biology in the third year of the Arts Faculty, and of the for Biochemistry as a department for the first time. Biological and Physical Sciences in the fourth year. One of the recommended texts was Hawk's 'Practical Evidence for 1907-1908: Macallum's salary had been Physiological Chemistry' second edition, and it is of $3,200 for many years, but in the academic year 1907- interest that the twelfth edition ofthis text by Hawk, Oser 08 he was paid $4,000 according to the Report of the and Summerson was still in use in the department forty Board of Governors, and he continued at this salary years later (a copy is in the departmental archives). for a number of years. The Calendar heading changed It should be noted that the Department of from 'Physiology' to 'Physiology and Physiological Biochemistry was in the Faculty of Arts until July 1, Chemistry', there were major additions and changes in 1921, when it moved to the jurisdiction of the Faculty the courses listed, and the teaching staff was expanded. of Medicine. In the President's Report of 1907-08, the title given is the 'Department of Physiology and Biochemistry', whereas previously it had been only 'Physiology'. 100 YEARS OF BIOCHEMISTRY AT U OF T 1908-2008 Chairs of the Departments of Biochemistry and Zymology uring its 100-year history (1908-2008), the Table I Department of Biochemistry at the University Chairs of the Department of of Toronto has had 17 Chairs (Table 1), with Biochemistry Archibald Byron Macallum as the founding Chairman. Hardolph Wasteneys was Chair for the longest time for Archibald Byron Macallum 1907-1917 22 years from 1929-1951. Since the 1960s the term Andrew Hunter 1917 (acting) and of a Chair is 5 years, renewable for a second term. A 1919-1929 number of faculty members have served in an acting Thorburn Brailsford Robertson 1918-1919 capacity during academic leaves or while searches for Horace Bradbury Speakman 1919-1929 a permanent Chair were underway. This history is (Zymology) organized by events that occurred during the term of Hardolph Wasteneys 1929-1951 each Chair. Arthur Marshall Wynne 1951-1960 Charles Samuel Hanes 1960-1965 George Edward Connell 1965-1970 George Ronald Williams 1970-1977 Keith John Dorrington 1977-1982 Marian Aitchison Packham 1983 (acting) Harry Schachter 1984-1989 William Thompson 1989-1991 (acting) Peter Noel Lewis 1991-1996 and 1997-2001 David Bruce Williams 1996-1997 (acting) David Elliot Isenman 2002 (acting) Reinhart Reithmeier 2002- 100 YEARS OF BIOCHEMISTRY AT U OF T 1908-2008 3 CHAPTER 3 The EarlyYears 1907-1960 Professor Archibald Byron Macallum, F.R.S., F.R.S.C. (1858-1934) heDepartmentofBiochemistryatthe University of Toronto was established in 1907-08 with T Professor Macallum as the first chairman. At that time, he had been associated with the university for more than 30 years, having achieved his baccalaureate together with the medal in natural science in 1880. For three years he taught high school in Cornwall, Ontario, but continued his research, collaborating Medical Bu ilding 1903- 1968 with Prof.
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