Dr Peter Joseph Heald FRSE (26 July 1925 – 3 October 1996) was a British biochemist, who was an expert on reproductive biochemistry.
Growing fame gained him a travelling professorship to lecture at the Mayo Clinic in the United States.
[1] In 1961 he returned to Britain and moved into the business world rather than academia, acting as Head of Animal Biochemistry at Twyfords.
In 1966 he was made Professor of Biochemistry at the newly created University of Strathclyde In 1968 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
His proposers were Anthony Elliot Ritchie, Peter Pauson, Sir David Cuthbertson, Norman Davidson, and Reginald Brettauer Fisher.