Frederick Robert (Bob) Whatley was a pioneering plant biochemist whose work transformed our understanding of photosynthesis. Bob was born in Wiltshire and graduated from the University of Cambridge with a first-class degree in biochemistry and a PhD. He joined Daniel Arnon’s team at Berkeley in the 1950s, helping show that chloroplasts generate ATP through photosynthetic phosphorylation and proving they could fix carbon dioxide independently. He later identified ferredoxin’s key role, founded a major research centre at King’s College London, and as Sherardian Professor of Botany at Oxford advanced biochemical research. In 1967 he was nominated jointly (but unsuccessfully) with Allen and Arnon for a Nobel Prize. 

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