Professor Cees Veeger and the early years of bioinorganic chemistry
(2018) FEBS Journal — Vol. 285, n° 9, p. 1560-1562 (2018)
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- Cornelis Veeger, or Cees (pronounced as ‘case’) for everyone except officialdom, was born in The Netherlands on 26 August 1929. Coming from a modest background, he worked his way through college at the University of Amsterdam, where he graduated in 1960 with biochemist E. C. Slater on a thesis entitled ‘The reaction mechanism of diaphorase’. This pig heart enzyme is nowadays known as the flavoprotein dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase, part of the pyruvate dehydrogenase multi‐enzyme complex. Only 4 years later he was appointed full professor to a newly created Chair and Department of Biochemistry at Wageningen University where he worked until his retirement in 1995. [...]
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Crichton, R., & Hagen, F. (2018). Professor Cees Veeger and the early years of bioinorganic chemistry. FEBS Journal, 285(9), 1560-1562. https://doi.org/10.1111/febs.14470 (Original work published 2018)