Werner Jacobson graduated in Heidelberg in 1930 and moved to England in 1933. Honor Fell, the great cell biologist, recruited him to work at the Strangeways Laboratory in Cambridge. Doctorates in philosophy and of science followed in 1940 and 1960, and two sojourns in Harvard Medical School. In 1980, he was appointed Halley Stewart Professor of Experimental Medicine, first in the University Department of Haematology and later in that of Paediatrics in the Clinical School at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. His research was wide-ranging and he was an early and insistent advocate for the clinical significance of folic acid deficiency.

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