Heard, R. D. H. (Robert Donald Hoskin), 1908-1957

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Heard, R. D. H. (Robert Donald Hoskin), 1908-1957

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        Robert Donald Hoskin Heard was born in St. Thomas, Ontario in 1908. He received his BA and MA (1930) from University of Toronto. From 1930 to 1933 he was an 1851 Research Fellow while he studied for his PhD (1932) in Chemistry at the University of Manchester. He spent one year at Oxford before returning to University of Toronto as a Banting Research Foundation grantee. He was an assistant professor at Dalhousie from 1937 to 1942. He was invited to join the McGill University Department of Biochemistry in 1942 where he remained until his death in 1957.

        He pioneered work in synthesis of steroids containing radiolabelled isotopes. He authored many papers such as “A study of the oxidation of 3:4-dihydroxyphenyl-N-methylalanine with reference to its possible function as a precursor of adrenaline.” The Biochemical Journal. 27: 36-53 (1933).

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            Johstone, R. (2003). A Sixty-Year Evolution of Biochemistry at McGill University. Scientia Canadensis, 27, 27–83. https://doi.org/10.7202/800458ar

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