F. Sherwood Taylor

[1] F. Sherwood Taylor was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset, southern England and Lincoln College, Oxford.

He spent a period as a schoolmaster and then as a lecturer in chemistry at Queen Mary College, London.

[4][5] In an interview conducted by Errol Friedberg, Sydney Brenner said: I think like most children, I got interested in nature very early.

And then by reading a little book called The Young Chemist by Sherwood Taylor, I got interested in actually doing chemical experiments.

So I started my career as a garage chemist, buying chemicals from the local pharmacist and making things according to the prescriptions then, and going forward to more experiments, just on that basis.