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George Wallace Kenner
George Wallace Kenner FRS (16 November 1922 – 26 June 1978) was a British organic chemist.〔Lord A. R. Todd (1979). George Wallace Kenner. 16 November 1922 - 26 June 1978. Source: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 25, pp. 390-420. URL http://www.jstor.org/stable/769853〕 He was born in Sheffield in 1922, the son of Prof. James Kenner. During his childhood, he went to Didsbury preparatory school in 1928 and moved to Manchester Grammar School in 1934. He was appointed to the first Heath Harrison Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Liverpool 1957-1976. He did his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees under Lord Todd at Manchester and Cambridge Universities in UK. He married Jillian Bird in 1951 and they had two daughters both born in Cambridge. He was faculty member at the Cambridge University for 15 years before moving to the University of Liverpool in 1957 as Heath Harrison Professor of Organic Chemistry.
== Achievements ==
George Kenner contributed to many areas of organic chemistry. In 1960's George Kenner along with R.A. Gregory was involved in the seminal discovery and synthesis of peptide hormone gastrin at the University of Liverpool. Gastrin is involved in secretion of gastric acid (HCl) in the stomach.
The first chemical synthesis of a lysozyme like enzyme of 129 amino acids using classical approach was attempted by Prof. George W. Kenner and his group at the University of Liverpool in 1970's. This was the largest protein synthesized in the laboratory using the classical peptide synthesis up to that time.〔Kenner GW. The Bakerian lecture. Towards synthesis of proteins. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci; 1977; 197:237-53. PMID 19745〕 He carefully planned synthesis of this lysozyme analogue, of proven purity, containing 129 amino acid residues joined in a rigorously defined order. His effort led to the synthesis of this 129 amino acid protein. His dream of making a wholly synthetic lysozyme was only achieved in 2007. The synthesis of functionally active lysozyme was done 30 years later by Steve B. Kent and his group at the University of Chicago.〔Durek T, Torbeev VY, Kent SB. Convergent chemical synthesis and high-resolution x-ray structure of human lysozyme. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A; 2007; 104:4846-51. PMID 17360367〕 The value of George Kenner's contributions to the methodology of peptide chemistry had profoundly influence on the developments in the fields. For example it led to the synthesis of antigens of defined geometry for immunological studies.〔Barton MA, Singh B, Fraga E. Synthetic polypeptide antigens of defined geometry. J Am Chem Soc. 1977;99:8491-8. PMID 591685〕〔Singh B, Lee KC, Fraga E, Wilkinson A, Wong M, Barton MA. Minimum peptide sequences necessary for priming and triggering of humoral and cell-mediated immune responses in mice: use of synthetic peptide antigens of defined structure. J Immunol. 1980;124:1336-43. PMID 6153678〕
George Kenner's work has been recognized by the awards of Meldola Medal (1951) and the Corday-Morgan Medal (1957) and in distinguished lectureships Tilden (1955), Simonsen (1972) and Pedler (1976) of the Chemical Society of whose Perkin Division he was President from 1974 to 1976. He was also President of Section B of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1974. Elected into the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1964 he was the Society's Bakerian Lecturer for 1976 and was elected to a Royal Society Research Professorship in 1976.
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