Obituary: Sir James Baddiley

The distinguished scientist Sir James Baddiley, who has died aged 90, spent most of his career at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where he established a vibrant research group that later became the Microbiological Chemistry Research Laboratory, or MCRL, of which he was director from 1975 until 1983. The MCRL maintained an international reputation for its work on the structure, synthesis and function of bacterial cell walls, particularly in relation to teichoic acids, a group of polymers that form major components of the cell wall and membrane in gram-positive bacteria. It attracted large numbers of foreign students and visiting scientists, as well as providing training for MSc and PhD students, many of whom have gone on to achieve distinction in their own right.Baddiley was born and brought up in Manchester, where his father was director of research at the ICI dyestuffs division. He attended Manchester grammar school and Manchester...

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