Henry Drysdale Dakin
Henry Drysdale Dakin was born on March 12, 1880. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Henry Drysdale Dakin
Henry Drysdale Dakin FRS (12 March 1880 – 10 February 1952) was an English chemist. He was born in London as the youngest of 8 children to a family of steel merchants from Leeds. As a school boy, he conducted water analysis with the Leeds City Analyst. He was taught chemistry by Julius B. Cohen at the University of Leeds, and then he worked with Albrecht Kossel on arginase at the University of Heidelberg. He joined Columbia University in 1905, working in the lab of Christian Herter. During his work on amino acids he obtained his PhD from Leeds. In 1905, he was one of the first scientists to…