Dates

• Existence: 1920 - 1974

Biography

Len Eggleston was born in Sheffield and was educated at Marlcliffe Intermediate School. Initially employed as a laboratory assistant in the Department of Physics at the University of Sheffield, he moved in January 1936 at the age of 16 to join biochemist Hans Krebs in the Department of Pharmacology as Krebs's first technician and he remained with Kreb's research team until his death in January 1974. Until the end of the Second World War he was Krebs's only "semi-permanent (but eventually permanent) technical assistant". Eggleston was therefore active in the Department during the work on the Citric Acid Cycle (the Krebs Cycle) for which Krebs later received a Nobel Prize, and the war-time nutritional work of the Sorby Research Institute. His aptitude for biochemical research is evidenced by the fact that from modest beginnings many research papers came to be published under Eggleston's name, in collaboration with Krebs or other members of the team and, later, also by Eggleston as sole author.

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