Athel Cornish-Bowden
Athel Cornish-Bowden is a British biochemist known for his numerous textbooks, particularly those on enzyme kinetics and his work on metabolic control analysis. Education and career. Athel Cornish-Bowden worked on pepsin catalysis. This began a life long pursuit of work on enzyme catalysis and in later years work on the control of metabolism. More recently he has also turned his attention to work related to the origin and nature of life. He worked with Daniel E. Koshland Jr. and Jeremy R. Knowles. Research. Cornish-Bowden has authored over 200 peer-reviewed papers and nine textbooks  on topics related to enzyme kinetics, mathematics and historical perspectives in science. Cornish-Bowden's research can be divided into three primary areas: Enzyme kinetics, metabolic control and the origin of life. The following lists some of the topics and selected references to the work carried out and published by Cornish-Bowden: Mechanisms of Pepsin Catalysis Binding of ligands to Proteins Kinetics of nitrite reductase Kinetics of nitrate reductase The evolution of macromolecules Properties of multienzyme systems The theory of self-organizing systems His current interests include the definition of life and the capacity for life to self-organize. Cornish -Bowden is most well known for his introduction of the direct-linear plot for estimating enzyme parameters, his work on Hexokinase evolution and kinetics, and his insight into the control and regulation of metabolism