Donald Henry Northcote,Photo of Northcote FRS (27 December 1921 – 7 January 2004) was a 20th-century British academic.Nature.com
Early life Northcote was educated at Sir George Monoux Grammar School (1933–38). He graduated from University of London.
Career He was a Lecturer in Plant Biochemistry"Wandering in the Gardens of the Mind: Peter Mitchell and the Making of Glynn" Prebble, J/Weber, B p45: Oxford;OUP; 2003 at the University of Cambridge;The First Floor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge (1952–58) By Brian S. Hartley then Reader from 1965 to 1972; and Professor from 1972 to 1989. He was also an Honorary Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge.College web-site
Personal life His daughter Jane married 21-year-old Tim Berners-Lee at Cambridge Register Office in July 1976. Both had graduated, together, in Physics. Both would work as engineers in Poole in Dorset, at Plessey. She had attended Perse School for Girls. The reception was at Sidney Sussex College, with a holiday in southern Ireland.Cambridge Daily News Monday 19 July 1976, page 10 They lived in Corfe Mullen.Bournemouth Echo
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External links Obituary from the Cambridge University Reporter