Barnet Woolf

Barnet Woolf
Barnet Woolf
Born	(1902-11-24)24 November 1902 Hackney, London
Died	20 March 1983(1983-03-20) (aged 80) Fife, Scotland
Education	Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Known for	Linear plots in enzyme kinetics; political activism
Spouse	Cecil Drillien (m. 1945)
Scientific career
Institutions	Sir William Dunn Institute of Biochemistry, Cambridge; Clinical Laboratory of the London Hospital; Birmingham University; Edinburgh University
Thesis	Resting Bacteria and Enzyme Action
Academic advisors	Frederick Gowland Hopkins, John Marrack, Lancelot Hogben

Barnet Woolf FRSE (24 November 1902 – 20 March 1983) was a 20th-century British scientist, whose disciplines had a broad scope. He made lasting contributions to biochemistry, genetics, epidemiology, nutrition, public health, statistics, and computer science. His name appears in the Hanes–Woolf plot for enzyme kinetic data.