Charles Enrique Dent

Charles Enrique Dent, CBE, FRCP, FRS (25 August 1911 – 19 September 1976) was a British professor of human metabolism at University College, London. After studying chemistry at Imperial College London, he gained a PhD for his work on copper phthalocyanin, then worked for ICI Dyestuffs Group in Manchester and also studied secret writing, which he later made use of during the Second World War.

He completed his medical studies in 1944. The following year, he was sent by the Medical Research Council to the recently liberated concentration camp at Belsen together with Janet Vaughan and Rosalind Pitt-Rivers, to study if starvation could be treated with protein hydrolysates.

From 1946, his career focused on several inborn errors of metabolism. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1976 New Year Honours