In the 1939 England and Wales Register[1] the parents (“Nursem”) were living at Corringham Court, Golders Green; Sergius was listed as “Dental surgeon (seeking work).” The family settled in Ilkley, Yorkshire, where Harry attended Ilkley Grammar School and gained his Higher School Certificate in 1944.
[3][4] Also there was Jean Frobisher, Harry's fellow student and bridge partner at Ilkley Grammar School, and now a welfare worker.
[5] After more research at Leeds, Nursten taught dyeing and textile chemistry at Nottingham Technical College.
[6] Following two sabbaticals at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and UC Davis, he moved into the area of food and flavour science.
In 1992, the year he retired,[7] Nursten ensured that the Hugh Macdonald Sinclair endowment was used to set up a new centre for human nutrition research at the University of Reading.