R. H. A. Plimmer dating history

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Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (25 April 1877 – 18 June 1955) was a British chemist, biochemist and author, who researched protein chemistry, especially the phosphorylation of proteins, and nutrition, particularly vitamins and the nutritional qualities of different proteins. He worked at the physiology department of University College, London (1904–19), latterly as reader in physiological chemistry, briefly headed the biochemistry department at the Rowett Institute of Research in Animal Nutrition in Aberdeen, and then returned to London to hold a chair in the chemistry department of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School (1922–42), and in retirement worked at the British Postgraduate Medical School (1943–55).