Colin Ratledge

{{short description|British biochemist}}

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| alma_mater = University of Manchester

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| doctoral_students = Sarah Gilbert

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Colin Ratledge {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRSC|FRSB}} (born 9 October 1936) is a British biochemist who was Professor of Microbial Biochemistry at the University of Hull from 1983 to 2004."Ratledge, Prof. Colin, (born 9 Oct. 1936), Professor of Microbial Biochemistry, University of Hull, 1983–2004, now Emeritus." WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 1 Dec. 2007

He was educated at Bury High School, and graduated from University of Manchester with a BSc in 1957 and a PhD in 1962.{{cite web |title=History of the Stephen Chang Award |url=https://lipidlibrary.aocs.org/resource-material/aocs-awards/history-of-the-stephen-chang-award |website=AOCS Lipid Library |access-date=17 June 2021}} He joined the University of Hull as a lecturer in 1967 and was head of the Department of Biochemistry there from 1986 to 1988.

He was editor of Biotechnology Letters from 1996 to 2017.{{cite journal |last1=Ratledge |first1=Colin |title=The time has come; good-bye to all this |journal=Biotechnology Letters |date=January 2018 |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=1–3 |doi=10.1007/s10529-017-2474-3|pmid=29143166 |s2cid=6008251 |doi-access=free }} He received the Stephen Chang Award from the American Oil Chemists' Society in 2011. In 2015 the Colin Ratledge Center for Microbial Lipids opened at Shandong University of Technology. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 2018.{{cite web |title=Two 'pioneering' British scientists honoured by Ben-Gurion University |url=https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/two-pioneering-british-scientists-honoured-by-ben-gurion-university/ |website=Jewish News |date=8 May 2018 |access-date=17 June 2021}}

He has an h-index of 58 according to Semantic Scholar.{{cite web |title=C. Ratledge |url=https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/C.-Ratledge/3662243 |website=Semantic Scholar |access-date=13 November 2023}}