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Joel MandelstamFRS^[1] (13 November 1919 – 20 December 2008) was aBritishmicrobiologist, aprofessor, at theUniversity of Oxford, and a Fellow ofLinacre College, Oxford. He was a pioneer in usingbacteria to study fundamental biological phenomena — such asdevelopment,differentiation, and the turnover ofmacromolecules — which had more usually been investigated in higher organisms.^[2]

Born inJohannesburg, and educated at theJeppe High School for Boys, his parents wereLithuanian Jews.^[3] He attended theUniversity of the Witwatersrand, where he read for anhonoursBSc degree. After graduating in 1942, he worked as a research assistant at theMedical school in Johannesburg. Amongst others, he taughtSydney Brenner there.

He came to London in 1947 to work for aPhD underJohn Yudkin at King's College of Household and Social Science in London (which becameQueen Elizabeth College in 1953). From 1966 until his retirement in 1987 he wasIveagh Professor of Chemical Microbiology at the University of Oxford, where he built up a highly successful research group studyingspore formation in bacteria.^[2]

• Research assistant,University of the Witwatersrand Medical school, 1943–1947
• Lecturer,Queen Elizabeth College, London, 1947–51
• Scientific staff,National Institute for Medical Research, 1952–66
• Iveagh Professor of Microbiology, and Fellow of Linacre College, University of Oxford, 1966–87
• Departmental demonstrator, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, 1987–90
• Fulbright Fellow, US, 1958–59
• Visiting professor,University of Adelaide, 1971

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