Samuel Barnett Schryver

Samuel Barnett Schryver FRS
Born	(1869-03-15)15 March 1869 London, United Kingdom
Died	21 August 1929(1929-08-21) (aged 60)
Alma mater	University of Leipzig
Spouse	Elsie Naomi Davis ​ (m. 1910)​ [1]
Scientific career
Fields	Biochemistry
Institutions	University College London Institute of Cancer Research Imperial College of Science

Samuel Barnett Schryver FRS (15 March 1869 – 21 August 1929) was a British biochemist. Among other subjects, his work studied autolysis of tumours, gastric juice in diseases of the stomach, and coagulation.[2]

Biography

Samuel Barnett Schryver was born in London to Jewish parents Lewis and Elisabeth Schryver.[3] He was educated at the University College School,[4] before going on to study at University College London, the Zurich Polytechnikum, and the University of Leipzig, graduating with a Ph.D. from the latter institution.[5] He worked as Demonstrator in Chemistry at University College Liverpool from 1893 until 1897, and then as a researcher at the Wellcome Research Laboratories until March 1901,[2] when he was appointed Lecturer in Physiological Chemistry at University College London.[4]

In 1907 Schryver began working as a chemist at the Research Institute of the Cancer Hospital, and in 1913 joined the faculty of the Imperial College of Science,[4] becoming full Professor in 1920.[1] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1928.

He was married to Elsie Naomi Davis, sister of poet Nina Salaman.[1]

Bibliography

Besides nearly a hundred scientific papers and notes,[3] Schryver published the following books:

• Chemistry of the Albumens. Ten lectures delivered in the Michaelmas term, 1904, in the Physiological Department of University College, London. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co. 1906. hdl:2027/coo1.ark:/13960/t08w3zr57.
• The General Characters of the Proteins. Monographs on Biochemistry. London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1909.
• An Introduction to the Study of Biological Chemistry. London: T. C. and E. C. Jack. 1919. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t0rr1qn4q.

References

1. Rubinstein, William D.; Jolles, Michael A.; Rubinstein, Hillary L., eds. (2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 880. ISBN 978-0-230-30466-6. OCLC 793104984.
2. O'Connor, W. J. (1991). British Physiologists 1885–1914: A Biographical Dictionary. Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-7190-3282-0.
3. "Obituary notices". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. 110 (768): xxii–xxiv. 2 May 1932. doi:10.1098/rspb.1932.0031. ISSN 0950-1193.
4. "Obituary Notice: Samuel Barnett Schryver (1869–1929)". Biochemical Journal. 24 (2): 229–232. 1930. doi:10.1042/bj0240229. PMC 1254415. PMID 16744359.
5. Gay, Hannah (2007). History of Imperial College London, 1907–2007. London: Imperial College Press. p. 171. ISBN 978-1-908979-44-5.