was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1912. Personal life He married and had three children, but was devastated when his wife died suddenly of appendicitis in 1913. His son Thomas Moore (1900–99) was a nutritional biochemist who became the first deputy director of the MRC Dunn Nutritional Laboratory. Moore died from pneumonia in Oxford in 1922. Selected works Moore B, Eadie ES, Abram JH. (1906) On the treatment of diabetes mellitus by acid extract of duodenal mucous membrane. Bio-Chem J 1: 28–38 Moore B (1910) The Dawn of the Health Age References Further reading Hill L (1922) Nature 109: 348 (Obituary) Hopkins FG (1927) Proc Roy Soc Series B 101: xvii–xix (Obituary) 1867 births 1922 deaths British biologists Deaths from pneumonia in England Fellows of the Royal Society Vitalists Whitley Professors of Biochemistry