Quentin Gibson
Quentin Howieson Gibson FRS was a Scottish American physiologist, and professor at the University of Sheffield, and Cornell University.
Education
Gibson earned a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1944 and a Ph.D. in 1946, from Queen's University Belfast.Life
Gibson taught at the University of Sheffield from 1947. Whilst at the University of Sheffield Gibson met Audrey Jane Pinsent in 1951. They married, started a family, and eventually had four children. Jane Gibson continued working part-time whilst raising her family. In 1963 they emigrated to the United States, where she took up positions, first at the University of Pennsylvania. He succeeded (Sir) Hans Krebs as the Head of the Department of Biochemistry in 1955. In 1963 he left Sheffield to become a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.He was the Greater Philadelphia Professor at Cornell University, from 1965 to 1996.
In 1982, he became a U.S. citizen.
Research
Hemoglobin
Gibson started his career with studies of hemoglobin,and continued with much other work on heme proteins.
Medical and physiological work
In keeping with his medical qualifications, much of Gibson's early workhad medical or physiological relevance.