Whitley Professor of Biochemistry

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The position of Whitley Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford is one of the permanent chairs of the university, and the first in the field of biochemistry at the university. It is associated with a fellowship at Trinity College, Oxford, and was established with an endowment of £10,000 by Edward Whitley of Trinity College.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KrToAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA374|title=British Physiologists 1885-1914: A Biographical Dictionary |author= W. J. O'Connor | page=374 | publisher= Manchester University Press |date=31 January 1991|isbn= 978-0-7190-3282-0}} Benjamin Moore was nominated by Whitley, a former student of Moore, as the first professor.{{cite book |url=http://www.biochemistry.org/Portals/0/SciencePolicy/Docs/Chapter_01.pdf |title=History of the Biochemical Society 1911-1986 |chapter= Chapter 1: The Emergence of Biochemistry in the United Kingdom |author=T. W. Goodwin | publisher= The Biochemical Society}}{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=eu88AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA89 |title=Chemistry at Oxford: A History from 1600 to 2005 |author=Robert Joseph Paton Williams |author2=Allan Chapman |author3=John Shipley Rowlinson |page=69 | publisher=Cambridge University Press |year= 1982|isbn= 978-0-521-24312-4}} Since its creation, the position has been held by:

• Benjamin Moore 1920–22{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KrToAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA373|title=British Physiologists 1885-1914: A Biographical Dictionary|publisher=Manchester University Press|first1=W. J. |last1=O'Connor|year=1991|page=373|isbn=978-0-7190-3282-0}}
• Sir Rudolph Peters 1923–54{{cite web|first1=S. V. |last1=Perry|title=Porter, Rodney Robert (1917–1985)|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31562|date=2004|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=28 January 2015}} {{ODNBsub}}
• Sir Hans Adolf Krebs 1954–67{{cite web|first1=Hans |last1=Kornberg|title=Krebs, Sir Hans Adolf (1900–1981)|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=January 2011 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31327|access-date=28 January 2015}} {{ODNBsub}}
• Rodney Robert Porter 1967–85{{cite web|first1=Alexander G. |last1=Ogston|title=Peters, Sir Rudolph Albert (1889–1982)|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31542|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=January 2011 |access-date=28 January 2015}} {{ODNBsub}}
• Sir Edwin Southern 1985–2005{{cite web|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/global/wwwoxacuk/localsites/gazette/documents/universitycalendar/Professors_and_Readers_Emeritus_listed_in_the_2013-14_Calendar.pdf|title=Professors Emeritus|publisher=University of Oxford|access-date=28 January 2015|year=2013|page=17}}
• Kim Nasmyth 2006-2022{{cite web|title=Nasmyth, Prof. Kim Ashley|work=Who's Who 2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=October 2014 |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U29204|access-date=28 January 2015}} {{subscription required}}
• Dame Amanda Fisher 2023 onwards{{cite web|title=Welcome to Whitley Chair and Fellow in Biochemistry Professor Dame Amanda Fisher|date=January 2023 |url=https://www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/news/welcome-whitley-chair-and-fellow-biochemistry-professor-dame-amanda-fisher|access-date=11 January 2023}}