Frederick Whatley
Frederick Robert Whatley is an English botanist and biochemist who held the title of Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxford from 1971 to 1991.Education
Whatley completed his doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge in 1948, submitting a thesis titled "Enzyme Systems in the Green Leaf". While no explicit mention of a supervisor was made, Dr R. Hill is thanked for his "helpful advice and criticism during the course of the work". It can be reasonably concluded that Dr R. Hill played a supervisory role in Whatley's research, with Hill and Whatley going on to publish their paper "A natural factor catalyzing reduction of methaemoglobin by isolated chloroplasts" in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, in 1952.Work
Noted for research in photosynthesis, his early career involved the methaemoglobin reducing factor, later known as ferredoxin. He then worked with leaf mitochondria in Australia, with research involving ATP synthesis. Whatley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1975.
