Elsden, Sidney Reuben (1915-2006) biologist

Elsden was an undergraduate contemporary of R. L. M. Synge at Cambridge and his lifelong friend. After a year's research in Cambridge with Marjorie Stephenson, Elsden obtained an Assistant Lectureship in the Physiology Department, University of Edinburgh. He returned to Cambridge in 1943 and after a period in California in 1946 (Berkeley and Stanford) moved to Department of Bacteriology, University of Sheffield in 1948. Elsden subsequently became Honorary Director of the ARC Unit for Microbiology and Professor of Microbiology at Sheffield where he remained until 1965. He was Director of the ARC Food Research Insitute, Norwich, 1965-1977.