User:Athel cb

I am a biochemist (now retired) at the CNRS in Marseilles, formerly Birmingham (UK). I have an h-index of 66 (Google Scholar), and an Erdős number of 3, via Jorge Soto-Andrade and Winnie Li (a bit of a cheat, really, as I'm not a mathematician and barely understand the mathematics in the papers coauthored with Jorge Soto).

Main interests: Biochemistry, especially enzymes, metabolic regulation, self-organization, metabolic control analysis, definition of life, biochemical evolution; physical chemistry; history and philosophy of science; Chile, and Latin America in general.

On any page, on any topic, if I see a red link I try to find a way to make it  blue.

Edits I've done, and pages I've created
These are the pages I've created since I started on Wikipedia in June 2020:

Articles

 * Robert Abeles
 * Daniel Atkinson
 * Waldo Cohn
 * Sidney Colowick
 * Direct linear plot
 * Zacharias Dische
 * Jan-Hendrik S. Hofmeyr
 * Bernard Horecker
 * Christian Jung
 * Hermann Niemeyer


 * Herbert M. Sauro
 * Alberto Sols
 * Tetranucleotide hypothesis
 * Tsou plot

Template

 * Template:EnzExplorer

Disambiguation

 * Dan Atkinson (disambiguation)
 * Christian Jung (disambiguation)
 * Gösta Pettersson (disambiguation)

Redirection pages

 * Athelstan Cornish-Bowden (biochemist) → Athel Cornish-Bowden
 * Athelstan Hall Cornish-Bowden (land surveyor) → Athelstan Cornish-Bowden
 * Biochemical oscillations → Biological rhythm
 * Catalytic constant → turnover number
 * Endo-1,4-β-xylanase → Xylanase
 * Enterobactin synthase → 2,3-dihydroxybenzoate—serine ligase
 * Exo-alpha-sialidase → Neuraminidase
 * Guluronate-specific alginate lyase → Poly(alpha-L-guluronate) lyase
 * Hanes plot → Hanes–Woolf plot
 * Harden–Young ester → Fructose 1,6-bisphosphate
 * Harden-Young ester → Fructose 1,6-bisphosphate
 * List of irregularly spelled places in the United Kingdom →
 * List of irregularly spelt places in the United Kingdom
 * List of people from Marseilles → List of people from Marseille
 * Mannuronate-specific alginate lyase → Poly(beta-D-mannuronate) lyase
 * Mikhail Volkenshtein → Mikhail Volkenstein
 * Retinoid isomerohydrolase → All-trans-retinyl-palmitate hydrolase

Other pages
These are other pages I've worked significantly on:


 * Dehydrogenase
 * Eadie–Hofstee plot
 * Enzyme_Commission_number
 * Enzyme kinetics
 * Hanes plot
 * Lineweaver–Burk plot
 * List of biochemists
 * List of biologists
 * List of geneticists
 * List of British scientists
 * List of EC numbers (EC 4)


 * List of French scientists
 * Michaelis–Menten kinetics
 * Reinhart Heinrich
 * Victor Henri
 * Henrik Kacser
 * Leonor Michaelis
 * Maud Menten
 * Pepsin
 * Robert Rosen
 * Stopped-flow

In addition to these I've made a huge number of minor edits to pages about small places in Chile (and a few more substantial edits, for example for El Quisco). That has become an obsession, and a bit pointless, as I doubt whether any readers of Wikipedia in English really care who represents Sierra Gorda in the Senate. However, if the information is there it should be correct.

Time line

 * 11th June 2020. First registered. 0 edits.
 * 11th June 2021. First birthday. 2113 edits. 6 pages created (apart from redirection pages.)
 * 27th October 2021. Passed 5000 edits.
 * 11th June 2022. Second birthday. 7659 edits.
 * 31st July 2022. Passed 10000 edits (editing Stemod-13(17)-ene synthase, of all obscure pages).
 * 11th June 2023. Third birthday. 14 185 edits.
 * 26th June 2023. Passed 15000 edits (editing prunasin β-glucosidase).
 * 11th June 2024. Fourth birthday. 18 294 edits. 14 articles created (apart from redirection and disambiguation pages).

Who am I in real life?
My real name is Athel Cornish-Bowden. Anyone who knows me in real life will have easily guessed that from the way I sign, but it's not so obvious for others. When I first registered for Wikipedia I signed like that, but when I realized that most people didn't I changed to what you see now. The A in my given name is pronounced like the a in "hat" [æ]; most people say it like that, but I've heard it with the a of "hate" [ɛɪ̯]. "Cornish" is pronounced as you'd expect. The "Bow" in "Bowden" can be pronounced like "bow" or like "bow", whichever you prefer. That sounds a bit obscure, so I rephrase: it can be pronounced like "beau" or like "bough", whichever you prefer: [bəʊ̯] or [baʊ̯]. The name is common in the southwest, Devon in particular, where it is pronounced ['baʊ̯dən] ("bough dən"). My great-grandfather William Bowden was from Devon and pronounced it accordingly. However, my great-grandmother thought that sounded "common" and insisted that he change it to ['bəʊ̯dən] ("beau dən"), and that's how most of us say it today. The name is also common in Greater Manchester (with nothing much in between, so it probably arose independently in two places), where it is pronounced ['bəʊ̯dən] or ['bo:dən].

People with Wikipedia pages that I have met
I saw a section entitled "People with Wikipedia articles that I've met" on another user's page, and I thought, that's interesting, I wonder how many I have. I haven't included people who are still alive, but only people who can't come back and say they have no idea who I am. I also don't include people that I met very casually in circumstances where they wouldn't remember me afterwards, such as the Nobel Prizewinner whose car I helped to push when it broke down in Oxford, or another Nobel Prizewinner that I exchanged a few words with when we found ourselves next to one another at the urinals at a meeting at Harvard.

Gary Ackers Bob Alberty John Albery Daniel Atkinson Clement Attlee Herman Bachelard Jay Bailey Clinton Ballou Horace Barker Myron L. Bender Harvey Bialy Maurice Bowra Kuo-Chen Chou Mo Cleland Jack Cohen Waldo Cohn Keith Dalziel Henry Daniels Peter Day Hal Dixon Chris Dobson George Dodd Roland Douce Lindon Eaves Henry Emeleus Lars Ernster Edmond H. Fischer Walter Fitch Paul Foot George Forrest John H. Fremlin

Irwin Fridovich David B. Frohnmayer Joseph S. Fruton Bamber Gascoigne Sir William Gladstone Brian Goodwin Kay Graham Santiago Grisolía Marianne Grunberg-Manago Beverly Guirard Freddie Gutfreund William Hassid Reinhart Heinrich Henri-Géry Hers H. A. O. Hill Bernard Horecker Robert Hunter Alfredo Jadresic William Jencks John L. Jinks E. R. H. Jones Henrik Kacser Peter Karlson Frank Kitson Henry Kitson Jeremy Knowles Hans Kornberg Dan Koshland Marian Koshland

Keith Laidler Hélène Langevin-Joliot Luis Leloir Peter Maitlis Franz Matschinsky Humberto Maturana Michel Mendès France André Menez María Teresa Miras Portugal Benno Müller-Hill Hans Neurath Eric Newsholme Hermann Niemeyer Jacques Ninio Tony Orchard Yuri Ovchinnikov David Penny Richard Perham Max Perutz Sam Perry Claudina Rodrigues-Pousada A. L. Rowse Sam Rapoport Rex Richards R. Heiner Schirmer Nathan Sharon Vladimir Skulachev Bill Slater

John Maynard Smith Esmond Snell Alberto Sols Brunó Straub Celia White Tabor Herb Tabor Jamshed Tata Dan Tawfik René Thom René Thomas Pat Thompson Charles H. Townes Anna Tsou Tsou Chen-Lu Tito Ureta Merton Utter Francisco Varela Luigi M. Venanzi Donald Voet Christopher Wallace Edwin C. Webb Allan Wilson Bill Whelan Bob Williams Lewis Wolpert Harland Wood António Xavier Wang Yinglai

The composer Christopher Willis is my nephew. However, it doesn't say so either in his Wikipedia article or in mine, because I don't know of a source that would be acceptable as verification.