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Section: Career. Toohey received a B.S. in chemistry and a B.A. in physics at California State University, Fullerton in 1982 and a Ph.D. in applied physics at Harvard University in 1988. He was a postdoctoral fellow in applied physics under Professor James G. Anderson at Harvard, 1988-1991. In 1991 he joined the Depart... | Wikipedia - Darin Toohey - Career | 159 | 848 | null |
Section: Career > Research. His research addresses the chemistry and dynamics of Earth's atmosphere, with particular emphasis on observations of trace gases and aerosols and their impact on stratospheric ozone, the oxidative capacity of the atmosphere, and radiation balance. His group studies stratospheric ozone deplet... | Wikipedia - Darin Toohey - Career > Research | 203 | 1,021 | null |
Article: Owen Toon. Owen Brian Toon (born May 26, 1947 in Bethesda, Maryland) is an American professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences. He is a fellow at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received an A.B. in physics at the University of California, Ber... | Wikipedia - Owen Toon - Summary | 345 | 1,701 | null |
Section: Selected publications. Robertson DS, McKenna MC, Toon OB, et al. (2004). "Survival in the first hours of the Cenozoic". Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 116 (5–6): 760–8. Bibcode:2004GSAB..116..760R. doi:10.1130/B25402.1. S2CID 44010682. Brooks SD, Toon OB, Tolbert MA, et al. (2004). "Polar stratospheric clouds during SOL... | Wikipedia - Owen Toon - Selected publications | 335 | 929 | null |
Res. 108 (D19): 8590. Bibcode:2003JGRD..108.8590C. doi:10.1029/2002JD002659. Toon OB (2003). "Atmospheric science - African dust in Florida clouds". Nature. 424 (6949): 623–624. Bibcode:2003Natur.424..623T. doi:10.1038/424623a. PMID 12904770. S2CID 4419364. Ackerman AS, Toon OB, Stevens DE, et al. (2003). "Enhancement ... | Wikipedia - Owen Toon - Selected publications | 304 | 718 | null |
Section: Professional career. In 1945, Vonnegut started work at the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York. It was there, on November 14, 1946, that he discovered that silver iodide could be used as a nucleating agent to seed clouds. Seeding clouds involves inserting large quantities of a nucleat... | Wikipedia - Bernard Vonnegut - Professional career | 219 | 993 | null |
Section: Career. Watson was the Director of the Science Division and Chief Scientist for the Office of Mission to Planet Earth at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Watson then became Associate Director for Environment in the Office of the President of the United States in the White House. In 199... | Wikipedia - Robert Watson (chemist) - Career | 342 | 1,838 | null |
He was then Director of the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development which ran from 2005 to 2007, and had previously been co-chair of the International Scientific Assessment of Stratospheric Ozone for their reports from 1994 to 2006. He has been Chair or co-chair of other internat... | Wikipedia - Robert Watson (chemist) - Career | 164 | 878 | null |
Section: Opinions. Andrew Revkin writing for the New York Times described Watson as an "outspoken advocate of the idea that human actions—mainly burning coal and oil—are contributing to global warming and must be changed to avert environmental upheavals." In April 2002 the United States pressed for and won his replacem... | Wikipedia - Robert Watson (chemist) - Opinions | 290 | 1,428 | null |
The question is not whether climate will change in response to human activities, but rather how much (magnitude), how fast (the rate of change) and where (regional patterns). It is also clear that climate change will, in many parts of the world, adversely affect socio-economic sectors, including water resources, agricu... | Wikipedia - Robert Watson (chemist) - Opinions | 236 | 1,348 | null |
Article: Paul Wennberg. Paul O. Wennberg is the R. Stanton Avery Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Science and Engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Until 2023, he was the director of the Ronald and Maxine Linde Center for Global Environmental Science. He served as the firs... | Wikipedia - Paul Wennberg - Summary | 256 | 1,431 | null |
Section: Research. While still at Harvard, Wennberg developed advanced airborne sensors to measure radicals in the atmosphere, in particular the odd-hydrogen radicals OH and HO2. The laser-induced fluorescence instrument that he developed was placed in the nose of a NASA ER-2 aircraft to measure radicals during flight.... | Wikipedia - Paul Wennberg - Research | 308 | 1,367 | null |
As of 2004, Wennberg's instrument was modified for in situ measurements of water vapour and its Isotopologue HDO, and became the basis of the Harvard "Hoxotope". Using these tools, he overturned the long-held belief that lower stratospheric ozone is destroyed principally by nitrogen oxides; Wennberg showed that odd-hyd... | Wikipedia - Paul Wennberg - Research | 317 | 1,623 | null |
The Total Carbon Column Observing Network is a group of about 20 ground-based sites worldwide that host Fourier transform spectrometers. The spectrometers examine near-infrared (NIR) solar absorption spectra and measure atmospheric column abundances of CO2, CH4, CO, N2O and other molecules in terrestrial ecosystems. Da... | Wikipedia - Paul Wennberg - Research | 323 | 1,595 | null |
Article: Christine Wiedinmyer. Christine Wiedinmyer is an American atmospheric chemist who is a research scientist in the Atmospheric Chemistry Division of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. She has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Wiedinmyer developed the Fire INventor... | Wikipedia - Christine Wiedinmyer - Summary | 265 | 1,286 | null |
Section: A > Ab–Ah. John Jacob Abel (1857–1938). American biochemist and pharmacologist. He founded and chaired the first department of pharmacology in the United States at the University of Michigan. Robert Abeles (1926–2000). American biological chemist at Brandeis University. Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. John Abelso... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - A > Ab–Ah | 313 | 1,369 | null |
Section: A > Al–Am. Bruce Alberts (b. 1938). American biochemist at UC San Francisco, known for his work on protein complexes that enable chromosome replication in science, public policy, and as an original author of the textbook Molecular Biology of the Cell. Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. Robert Alberty (1921–2014). Am... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - A > Al–Am | 335 | 1,401 | null |
Section: A > An–At. Rudolph John Anderson (1879–1961). American biochemist graduated with a PhD from Cornell University Medical College. Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. Thomas F. Anderson (1911–1991). American biophysical chemist and geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania, a pioneer in applying electron microscopy t... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - A > An–At | 346 | 1,546 | null |
Section: B > Ba–Bee. David Baker (b. 1962). American biochemist and computational biologist at the University of Washington, who studies methods to predict and design the three-dimensional structures of proteins. Nobel Prize in chemistry, 2024. Tania A. Baker. American biochemist at MIT, who has studied transposons and... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - B > Ba–Bee | 345 | 1,450 | null |
Section: B > Bee–Ber. Lorena S. Beese. Biochemist at Duke University, known for structural biochemistry of DNA replication and protein prenylation enzymes. Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. Helmut Beinert (1913–2007). German born-American biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a pioneer of and advocate for the u... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - B > Bee–Ber | 341 | 1,341 | null |
American chemist at the University of Florida known for establishing synthetic biology and paleogenetics, aas wll as contributing to understanding of the origin of life; Paul Berg FRS (foreign member) (1926–2023). American biochemist at Stanford, known for pioneering work involving gene splicing of recombinant DNA. He ... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - B > Bee–Ber | 200 | 911 | null |
Section: B > Bi–Bo. Klaus Biemann (1926–2016). Austrian chemist at MIT, the "father of organic mass spectrometry" and particularly noted for his role in advancing protein sequencing with tandem mass spectrometry. Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. Ethel Ronzoni Bishop (1890–1975). American biochemist and physiologist at Wash... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - B > Bi–Bo | 344 | 1,425 | null |
Section: B > Br. Roscoe Brady (1923–2016). American biochemist at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, who identified many enzyme defects responsible for metabolic diseases. Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. Herman Branson (1914–1995). American physicist and biochemist who participated at Caltech in ... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - B > Br | 349 | 1,638 | null |
Section: B > Bu. John Buchanan (1917–2007). American biochemist at MIT, best known for his research on the biosynthesis of purines. Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. Eduard Buchner (1860–1917). German chemist and physiologist at the University of Munich, who overthrew the doctrine of vitalism by showing that cell-free yeast... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - B > Bu | 287 | 1,199 | null |
Section: C > Ca–Ce. David S. Cafiso (b. 1952). American biochemist at the University of Virginia, with research focusing on membranes and membrane proteins. Graham Cairns-Smith FRSE (1931–2016) Scottish organic chemist and molecular biologist at the University of Glasgow. John Cairns FRS (1922–2018) was a British physi... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - C > Ca–Ce | 331 | 1,477 | null |
Section: C > Ch–Che. Michael Chamberlin (b. 1937). American molecular biologist at UC Berkeley, with research focussed on gene expression in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. Britton Chance (1913–2010). American biochemist at the University of Pennsylvania. He studied enzyme structure and fu... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - C > Ch–Che | 345 | 1,433 | null |
Section: C > Che–Cl. Zhijian James Chen (b. 1966). Chinese-American biochemist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, known discovering mechanisms by which nucleic acids trigger innate and autoimmune responses from the interior of a cell. Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. Albert Chibnall FRS (1894–1988), Br... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - C > Che–Cl | 350 | 1,462 | null |
Biochemist at Cambridge known for work on folding and assembly of proteins. Steven Clarke (b. 1949). American biochemist at UCLA, known for work on molecular damage and molecular repair mechanisms. Roy Elwood Clausen (1891–1956). American biochemist, botanist, plant geneticist, and drosophilist W. Wallace Cleland (1930... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - C > Che–Cl | 156 | 674 | null |
Section: C > Co–Coo. Philip Cohen FRS (b. 1945). At the University of Dundee known primarily for work on protein phosphorylation and ubiquitinylation. Stanley Cohen (1922–2020). American biochemist at Vanderbilt University. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1986). Edwin Joseph Cohn (1892–1953). American protein ch... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - C > Co–Coo | 284 | 1,217 | null |
Section: C > Cor–Cu. Robert Corey (1897–1971). American protein chemist at Caltech, known for work with Linus Pauling on the α-helix and β-sheet. Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896–1984). American biochemist at Washington University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, who worked on glycogen. No... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - C > Cor–Cu | 348 | 1,470 | null |
Robert K. Crane (1919–2010). American biochemist at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, known for his discovery of sodium-glucose cotransport. Francis Crick FRS (1916–2004). British molecular biologist and neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge and the Salk Institute, noted for proposing the ... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - C > Cor–Cu | 170 | 714 | null |
Section: D > Da. Valerie Daggett. American protein chemist at the University of Washington, known for molecular dynamics simulations of proteins and other biomolecules. John Call Dalton (1825–1889). American physiologist at the New York Metropolitan Board of Health, known for detailed and precise sketches of the brain.... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - D > Da | 349 | 1,492 | null |
Section: D > De–Di. Christian de Duve FRS (foreign associate) (1917–2013). Belgian cytologist and biochemist at the Université Catholique de Louvain, known for discovering peroxisomes and lysosomes. Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1974). Foreign Associate Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. Michael W. Deem. American biochemi... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - D > De–Di | 324 | 1,319 | null |
Section: D > Do–Du. George H. Dodd (died 2020). British biochemist who studied perfumes and pheromones. Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893–1986). American biochemist at St Louis University, known for discovering vitamin K. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1943). Ford Doolittle (b. 1942). American biochemist at Dalhousie... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - D > Do–Du | 346 | 1,464 | null |
Section: E. Setsuro Ebashi (1922–2006). Japanese biochemist at the University of Tokyo who discovered troponin. Richard H. Ebright (b. 1959). American molecular biologist at Rutgers University, known for work on protein-DNA interaction, aspects of transcription, and antibacterial drug discovery. John Tileston Edsall (1... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - E | 343 | 1,468 | null |
Section: F > Fa–Fi. Leone N. Farrell (1904–1986). Canadian biochemist and microbiologist at Connaught Laboratories (Toronto) who discovered a way to isolate live virus in bulk quantities, sufficient for producing the polio vaccine. Richard D. Feinman (b. 1940). American biochemist and medical researcher at SUNY Downsta... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - F > Fa–Fi | 303 | 1,324 | null |
Section: F > Fl–Fu. Louis B. Flexner (1902–1996). American biochemist at the University of Pennsylvania, who worked on the biochemistry of memory and brain function. Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. Otto Folin (1867–1934). Swedish-American chemist at Harvard, best known for developing methods for the determination of the c... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - F > Fl–Fu | 348 | 1,383 | null |
Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. Joseph S. Fruton (1912–2007). Polish-American biochemist at the Rockefeller Institute. He worked on proteases, but is best known for his influential book General Biochemistry, written with his wife Sofia Simmonds, and for later work on the history of biochemistry. Member Natl. Acad. Sci. US... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - F > Fl–Fu | 170 | 662 | null |
Section: G > Ga–Go. Elmer L. Gaden (1923–2012). American biochemical engineer at the University of Virginia, known as the father of biochemical engineering. Michael H. Gelb (b. 1957). American biochemist at the University of Washington who studies study enzymatic processes of biomedical significance. Susan Gerbi, (b. 1... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - G > Ga–Go | 338 | 1,391 | null |
Section: G > Gr–Gu. Sam Granick (1909–1977). American biochemist at the Rockefeller University, known for his studies of ferritin and iron metabolism. Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. David E. Green (1910–1983). American biochemist at the University of Wisconsin, pioneer in the study of enzymes involved in oxidative phosph... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - G > Gr–Gu | 346 | 1,402 | null |
Section: H > Ha–He. James Haber (b. 1943). American molecular biologist at Brandeis University known for his discoveries in the field of DNA repair. Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. J. B. S. Haldane (John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, 1892–1964). British (and later Indian) geneticist, biochemist (study of enzymes) and statisti... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - H > Ha–He | 331 | 1,420 | null |
1950), British biochemist at the University of Dundee, known for work on AMP-activated protein kinase. Harry Harris FRS, FCRP (1919–1994), British-born biochemist who showed that human genetic variation was not rare. Brian S. Hartley FRS (1926–2021). British biochemist at Imperial College London. Known for studies on c... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - H > Ha–He | 311 | 1,382 | null |
Section: H > Hi–Hu. Archibald Vivian Hill FRS (1886–1977). British protein biophysicist at University College London known primarily for work in muscle biochemistry, but also for the Hill equation, still widely used for quantifying protein cooperativity. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1922). Robin Hill FRS (189... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - H > Hi–Hu | 346 | 1,515 | null |
Section: J. Sophie E. Jackson (active from 1991). Biochemist at the University of Cambridge known for work on protein folding. Alec Jeffreys FRS (b. 1950). British biochemist and geneticist at Leicester University, known for inventing genetic fingerprinting. William Jencks FRS (foreign member) (1927–2007). American bio... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - J | 184 | 815 | null |
Section: K > Ka–Ke. Henrik Kacser FRSE (1918–1995). British geneticist and biochemist at Edinburgh, founder of metabolic control analysis. Emil T. Kaiser (1938–1988). Hungarian-born American protein chemist at the University of Chicago, known for his work on enzyme modification. Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. Herman Kalc... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - K > Ka–Ke | 328 | 1,387 | null |
Section: K > Kh-Kn. Har Gobind Khorana (1922–2011). Indian-American biochemist at the University of Wisconsin, who participated in elucidating the genetic code. Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1968). Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. Charles Glen King (1896–1988). American biochemist at the University of Pittsburgh.... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - K > Kh-Kn | 256 | 1,043 | null |
Section: K > Ko–Ku. Arthur Kornberg (1918–2007). American biochemist at Stanford, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1959) for discovery of DNA polymerase. Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. Sir Hans Kornberg FRS (1928–2019). British biochemist at Cambridge University, known for research in microbial biochemistry. Member ... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - K > Ko–Ku | 320 | 1,229 | null |
Section: L > La–Lem. Marc Lacroix (b. 1963). Belgian biochemist at the Institut Jules Bordet (Brussels), who specializes in breast cancer biology, metastasis and therapy. Keith Laidler (1916–2003). British-Canadian chemist and biochemist at the University of Ottawa. Expert on chemical and enzyme kinetics. Fellow of the... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - L > La–Lem | 341 | 1,415 | null |
Section: L > Lev–Ly. Phoebus Levene (1869–1940). Russian-American biochemist at the Rockefeller Institute, who discovered that DNA was composed of nucleobases and phosphate. Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. Cyrus Levinthal (1922–1990). American molecular biologist at Columbia, known for theoretical analysis of protein fold... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - L > Lev–Ly | 349 | 1,517 | null |
Australian biochemist at Monash University, known for work on mitochondria, and in particular for the relationship between mitochondrial damage and aging. Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. Fritz Lipmann (1899–1986). German and later American biochemist at the Rockefeller University, known for work in interme... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - L > Lev–Ly | 256 | 1,116 | null |
Section: M > M–Mey. Ida Maclean (1877–1944). British biochemist at the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, known work on fatty acids in animals and fat synthesis. John Macleod FRS (1876–1935). British biochemist and physiologist at the University of Toronto, discoverer of insulin. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medi... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - M > M–Mey | 343 | 1,432 | null |
William D. McElroy (1917–1999). American biochemist and science administrator at University of California San Diego. Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. Enrique Meléndez-Hevia (born 1946). Spanish biochemist at the University of La Laguna, known for studies of evolution and metabolism. Maud Menten (1879–1960). Canadian bioche... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - M > M–Mey | 157 | 705 | null |
Section: M > Mic–Mu. Leonor Michaelis (1875–1949). German biochemist at the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, known for early work on enzyme kinetics. He developed biochemistry in Japan. He studied quinones, and used this knowledge to develop a method for producing a perm (hairstyle). Friedrich Miescher (1844–... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - M > Mic–Mu | 339 | 1,459 | null |
Section: N. David Nachmansohn (1899–1983). German biochemist at Columbia, responsible for elucidating the role of phosphocreatine in energy production in muscles. Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Joseph Needham FRS (1900–1995). British biochemist at Cambridge, historian and sinologist, noted for embryology and morphogenesis... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - N | 340 | 1,426 | null |
National Prize of Science (Chile). Member of the Academy of Science of Chile. Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927–2010). American biochemist and geneticist at the NIH, who showed that UUU codes for phenylalanine, the first step in deciphering the genetic code. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1968). Member Natl. Acad... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - N | 163 | 695 | null |
Section: O. Severo Ochoa (1905–1993). Spanish and American biochemist at New York University, major contributor to elucidating the genetic code. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1959). Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. Alexander George Ogston FRS (1911–1996). British biochemist at Oxford University, known for the thre... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - O | 323 | 1,449 | null |
Section: P. Pier Paolo Pandolfi (b. 1963). Italian geneticist and molecular biologist at the Desert Research Institute, Reno, known for work on pseudogenes. Jakub Karol Parnas (1884–1949). Polish-Soviet biochemist at the University of Lviv, who discovered (with Gustav Embden and Otto Fritz Meyerhof), the glycolytic pat... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - P | 342 | 1,424 | null |
Antoinette Pirie (1905–1991), British biochemist, ophthalmologist, and educator. Norman Wingate Pirie FRS (1907–1997), British biochemist and virologist. Rosalind Pitt-Rivers (1907–1990). British biochemist at the National Institute for Medical Research in Mill Hill, London, specializing in thyroid biochemistry. David ... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - P | 170 | 755 | null |
Section: R > Ra. Efraim Racker (1913–1991). Austrian-American biochemist at Cornell University, notable for work on ATP synthase. Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. George Radda FRS (1936–2024). Hungarian biochemist at Oxford University, known for applying nuclear magnetic resonance to complex biological material, and many o... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - R > Ra | 276 | 1,237 | null |
Section: R > Re–Ru. Lynne Regan (Ph.D. 1987). British biochemist and biotechnologist at the University of Edinburgh which studies interactions between proteins and nucleic acids. Jens Reich (b. 1939). German biophysicist at the Central Institute of Molecular Biology of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin-Buch, pioneer in... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - R > Re–Ru | 344 | 1,450 | null |
Section: S > Sa–Sc. Margarita Salas (1938–2019). Spanish biochemist at the Spanish National Research Council. Known for work on DNA replication. First woman elected to the Royal Spanish Academy. Wolfram Saenger (b. 1939). German biochemist and protein crystallographer at the Free University of Berlin, known for work on... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - S > Sa–Sc | 318 | 1,378 | null |
Section: S > Se–So. Michael Sela (1924–2022). Israeli immunologist at the Weizmann Institute, who worked on synthetic antigens, molecules that trigger the immune system to attack. Foreign associate Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. Nathan Sharon (1925–2011). Israeli biochemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, expert on carboh... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - S > Se–So | 345 | 1,508 | null |
Section: S > St–Sz. Donald F. Steiner (1930–2014). American biochemist at the University of Chicago, who made ground breaking discoveries in the treatment of diabetes. Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Joan Steitz FRS (foreign associate) (b. 1941). American biochemist at Yale University, best known for her work on RNA. Membe... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - S > St–Sz | 331 | 1,383 | null |
Section: T. Celia White Tabor (1918–2012). American biochemist at the NIH, expert on the biosynthesis of polyamines. Herbert Tabor (1918–2020). American biochemist at NIH who studied the function of polyamines and their role in human health and disease. He was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Biological Chemistry for ... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - T | 338 | 1,320 | null |
Section: V. Pablo Valenzuela (b. 1941). Chilean biochemist and biotechnologist at Chiron Corporation (Emeryville, California), known for his genetic studies of hepatitis viruses. Member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences. Ruth van Heyningen (1917–2019). British biochemist at Oxford University, known for her research on... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - V | 240 | 1,007 | null |
Section: W > Wa. John E. Walker FRS (b. 1941). British biochemist at Cambridge University, known for studies of ATPases and ATP synthase. Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1997). Foreign associate Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. Michael Wakelam (1955–2020). British molecular biologist at Babraham Institute, Cambridge Selman Waksman (18... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - W > Wa | 350 | 1,470 | null |
Section: W > We–Wh. Edwin C. Webb (1921–2006). British (later Australian) biochemist at the University of Queensland and Macquarie University. Editor of Enzyme Nomenclature until 1992. Gregorio Weber (1916–1997). Argentinian spectroscopist at the University of Illinois, who pioneered the application of fluorescence spe... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - W > We–Wh | 332 | 1,452 | null |
Section: W > Wi–Wr. William T. Wickner (b. 1946). American biochemist at Dartmouth Medical School, an authority on membrane fusion and inheritance. Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. Meir Wilchek (b. 1935). Israeli biochemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known especially for his work on affinity chromatography. Maur... | Wikipedia - List of biochemists - W > Wi–Wr | 337 | 1,462 | null |
Article: Biochemist. Biochemists are scientists who are trained in biochemistry. They study chemical processes and chemical transformations in living organisms. Biochemists study DNA, proteins and cell parts. The word "biochemist" is a portmanteau of "biological chemist." Biochemists also research how certain chemical ... | Wikipedia - Biochemist - Summary | 284 | 1,616 | null |
In biochemistry, researchers often break down complicated biological systems into their component parts. They study the effects of foods, drugs, allergens and other substances on living tissues; they research molecular biology, the study of life at the molecular level and the study of genes and gene expression; and the... | Wikipedia - Biochemist - Summary | 286 | 1,656 | null |
Section: Training. Some of the job skills and abilities that one needs to attain to be successful in this field of work include science, mathematics, reading comprehension, writing, and critical thinking. These skills are critical because of the nature of the experimental techniques of the occupation. One will also nee... | Wikipedia - Biochemist - Training | 316 | 1,769 | null |
Section: Employment. Biochemists are typically employed in the life sciences, where they work in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry in a research role. They are also employed in academic institutes, where in addition to pursuing their research, they may also be involved with teaching undergraduates, training ... | Wikipedia - Biochemist - Employment | 289 | 1,521 | null |
Section: Career. He carried out his doctoral studies at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1961 under the tutorship of Prof. F.M. Richards. He did post doctoral work with Prof. Fritz Lipmann at Rockefeller University and with Marshall Warren Nirenberg at NIH. During the 196... | Wikipedia - Jorge Allende - Career | 279 | 1,432 | null |
Section: Personal life. He married Catherine Connelly (also a biochemist) in Holyoke, Massachusetts, On September 16, 1961. He raised a family of four children: Miguel Luis, Juan Ignacio, Jorge Eduardo and Maria Amparo and has 13 grandchildren. With his wife, Catherine Connelly, he was on sabbatical at the University o... | Wikipedia - Jorge Allende - Personal life | 196 | 974 | null |
Section: Awards and distinctions. 2007 - Recipient of the puRkwa Prize. This is an "international prize for the scientific literacy of the children of the planet" awarded annually by the École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne and the French Academy of Sciences. 2005 - Member of the Academy of Exact, Phys... | Wikipedia - Jorge Allende - Awards and distinctions | 216 | 1,113 | null |
Section: Career. In 1990, Asemota moved to Jamaica to take up a position as Associate Honorary Lecturer at the University of the West Indies. She was appointed Lecturer in 1996, and promoted to Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry and Biotechnology in 1998. In 2003, Asemota was promoted to Professor of Biochemistry and Mole... | Wikipedia - Helen Asemota - Career | 308 | 1,615 | null |
Section: Career > Research. Asemota conducted PhD research at the University of Benin and Frankfurt University, where she studied the molecular genetics and metabolism of the browning of yam tubers in storage. Upon moving to Jamaica, prompted by ongoing problems with production and storage in the Jamaican yam industry,... | Wikipedia - Helen Asemota - Career > Research | 323 | 1,631 | null |
Article: Karen Ashe. Karen K. Hsiao Ashe is a professor at the Department of Neurology and Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota (UMN) Medical School, where she holds the Edmund Wallace and Anne Marie Tulloch Chairs in Neurology and Neuroscience. She is the founding director of the N. Bud Grossman Center for Memo... | Wikipedia - Karen Ashe - Summary | 233 | 1,089 | null |
Section: Personal life and education. Ashe's parents came to the United States from China in 1943 to pursue PhDs, before settling in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area. Her father, C.C. Hsiao, taught aerospace engineering at the University of Minnesota, and her mother, Joyce, was a biochemist. She has three younger siblin... | Wikipedia - Karen Ashe - Personal life and education | 181 | 821 | null |
Section: Professional life > Early career. Between 1986 and 1989, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco where she researched prion diseases and published with Stanley Prusiner. In 1989, she was the first author on a paper published in Nature, entitled "Linkage of a prion protein ... | Wikipedia - Karen Ashe - Professional life > Early career | 220 | 1,033 | null |
Section: Professional life > Alzheimer's research > Amyloid-beta protein. In 1996—early in her career at UMN—Ashe was the first author on a paper published in Science, entitled "Correlative memory deficits, Aβ elevation, and amyloid plaques in transgenic mice", describing a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, which fur... | Wikipedia - Karen Ashe - Professional life > Alzheimer's research > Amyloid-beta protein | 337 | 1,516 | null |
Section: Professional life > Alzheimer's research > 2022 investigation. In July 2022, concerns were raised by Matthew Schrag, a Vanderbilt University neuroscientist, that certain images in the 2006 Nature paper were manipulated in the paper co-authored by Ashe's postdoctoral Sylvain Lesné, whom she hired in 2002. These... | Wikipedia - Karen Ashe - Professional life > Alzheimer's research > 2022 investigation | 335 | 1,572 | null |
Section: Professional life > Alzheimer's research > 2024 retraction. In May 2023, the Star Tribune reported that Ashe was using new techniques to re-do the work reported in the 2006 Nature study, this time without Lesné, and that she stated "it's my responsibility to establish the truth of what we've published". Ashe's... | Wikipedia - Karen Ashe - Professional life > Alzheimer's research > 2024 retraction | 201 | 939 | null |
Section: Selected publications. Hsiao K, Baker HF, Crow TJ, Poulter M, Owen F, Terwilliger JD, Westaway D, Ott J, Prusiner SB (March 1989). "Linkage of a prion protein missense variant to Gerstmann-Sträussler syndrome". Nature. 338 (6213): 342–345. Bibcode:1989Natur.338..342H. doi:10.1038/338342a0. PMID 2564168. S2CID ... | Wikipedia - Karen Ashe - Selected publications | 343 | 888 | null |
doi:10.1056/NEJM199104183241604. PMID 2008182. Hsiao KK, Borchelt DR, Olson K, Johannsdottir R, Kitt C, Yunis W, Xu S, Eckman C, Younkin S, Price D (November 1995). "Age-related CNS disorder and early death in transgenic FVB/N mice overexpressing Alzheimer amyloid precursor proteins". Neuron. 15 (5): 1203–1218. doi:10.... | Wikipedia - Karen Ashe - Selected publications | 350 | 926 | null |
"Impaired synaptic plasticity and learning in aged amyloid precursor protein transgenic mice". Nat Neurosci. 2 (3): 271–276. doi:10.1038/6374. PMID 10195221. S2CID 8318335. Westerman MA, Cooper-Blacketer D, Mariash A, Kotilinek L, Kawarabayashi T, Younkin LH, Carlson GA, Younkin SG, Ashe KH (March 2002). "The relations... | Wikipedia - Karen Ashe - Selected publications | 334 | 882 | null |
Cleary JP, Walsh DM, Hofmeister JJ, Shankar GM, Kuskowski MA, Selkoe DJ, Ashe KH (January 2005). "Natural oligomers of the amyloid-beta protein specifically disrupt cognitive function". Nat Neurosci. 8 (1): 79–84. doi:10.1038/nn1372. PMID 15608634. S2CID 13400377. Santacruz K, Lewis J, Spires T, Paulson J, Kotilinek L,... | Wikipedia - Karen Ashe - Selected publications | 344 | 942 | null |
440 (7082): 352–357. Bibcode:2006Natur.440..352L. doi:10.1038/nature04533. PMID 16541076. S2CID 4407385. (Retracted, see doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07691-8, PMID 38914864) Liu P, Reed MN, Kotilinek LA, Grant MK, Forster CL, Qiang W, Shapiro SL, Reichl JH, Chiang AC, Jankowsky JL, Wilmot CM, Cleary JP, Zahs KR, Ashe KH (Jun... | Wikipedia - Karen Ashe - Selected publications | 312 | 751 | null |
Article: Angelo Azzi. Angelo Azzi is an Italian and Swiss biochemist, author and academic serving as a Professor Emeritus in the Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at the University of Bern and Adjunct Faculty Member at Tufts University. Azzi's work focuses on the biochemistry of enzymes, gene regulation,... | Wikipedia - Angelo Azzi - Summary | 212 | 1,092 | null |
Section: Education and career. Azzi earned an MD in 1963 from the University of Padua, followed by a PhD in General Pathology in 1969 and a PhD in Biochemistry in 1970. He worked at Institute of General Pathology under Massimo Aloisi, where he explored mitochondrial function and later collaborated with Giovanni Felice ... | Wikipedia - Angelo Azzi - Education and career | 314 | 1,663 | null |
Section: Research. Azzi has researched the mechanisms through which vitamin E and lycopene prevent prostate cancer and has discovered the transport carrier for aspartic and glutamic acids in mitochondria. He has evaluated vitamin E's roles beyond its antioxidative properties, highlighting its involvement in cellular si... | Wikipedia - Angelo Azzi - Research | 322 | 1,594 | null |
Furthermore, examining the role of protein kinase C in signal transduction, he emphasized its activation by various agents and involvement in tumor promotion, while calling for additional research into its physiological substrates. His work also analyzed the formation of hydrogen peroxide in the mitochondrial respirato... | Wikipedia - Angelo Azzi - Research | 298 | 1,432 | null |
Section: Life and career. In 1967 Beridze discovered satellite DNA in plants. Through his research from 1972 to 1975, it was found that closely related species of one genus differ in satellite DNA content. In 1986 he published the monograph Satellite DNA in Springer Edition. In 2013 this monograph was edited as an eBOO... | Wikipedia - Tengiz Beridze - Life and career | 195 | 928 | null |
Section: Selected publications. Beridze TG, Odintsova MS, Sissakian NM (1967) Distribution of bean leaf DNA components in the cell organelle fractions. Molek.Biol.USSR. 1,142-153 Beridze TG (1972) DNA nuclear satellites of the genus Phaseolus. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 262,393-396 Beridze TG (1975) DNA nuclear satellites ... | Wikipedia - Tengiz Beridze - Selected publications | 346 | 1,063 | null |
sylvestris) from the Caucasus region. Vitis 51 (3), 119–124 Tabidze V, Baramidze G, Pipia I, Gogniashvili M, Ujmajuridze L, Beridze T, Hernandez AG, Schaal B (2014) The Complete Chloroplast DNA Sequence of Eleven Grape Cultivars. Simultaneous Resequencing Methodology. Journal International des Sciences de la Vigne et d... | Wikipedia - Tengiz Beridze - Selected publications | 343 | 1,044 | null |
Section: Scientific publications. Bharat is the author or co-author of over 65 scientific publications. These include: Andriko von Kügelgen, C Keith Cassidy, Sofie van Dorst, Lennart L Pagani, Christopher Batters, Zephyr Ford, Jan Löwe, Vikram Alva, Phillip J Stansfeld, Tanmay A.M. Bharat (2024) Membraneless channels s... | Wikipedia - Tanmay A. M. Bharat - Scientific publications | 316 | 1,087 | null |
Trends in Microbiology May;29(5):405-415. Charlotte Melia, Jani Bolla, Stefan Lanwermeyer, Daniel Mihaylov, Patrick Hoffmann, Jiandong Huo, Michael Wozny, Louis Elfari, Jan Böhning, Ray Owens, Carol Robinson, George O’Toole & Tanmay A.M. Bharat (2021) Architecture of cell-cell junctions in situ reveals a mechanism for ... | Wikipedia - Tanmay A. M. Bharat - Scientific publications | 280 | 1,002 | null |
Section: Research > Function and significance of brown adipose tissue. Cannon's initial publications, alongside Stanley Prusiner, definitively showed that thermogenesis was primarily driven by mitochondrial uncoupling, likely induced by the presence of free fatty acids. She subsequently showcased important elements in ... | Wikipedia - Barbara Cannon - Research > Function and significance of brown adipose tissue | 350 | 1,871 | null |
Focusing on integrative physiology, Cannon's research on mice lacking the UCP1 gene revealed that there are no alternative mechanisms for adrenergically induced adaptive thermogenesis apart from UCP1 in brown adipose tissue. This finding challenges the notion of adaptive adrenergic muscular thermogenesis and suggests t... | Wikipedia - Barbara Cannon - Research > Function and significance of brown adipose tissue | 155 | 806 | null |
Section: Selected articles. Cannon, B., & Nedergaard, J. (2004). Brown adipose tissue: function and physiological significance. Physiological Reviews, 84, 277 - 359. Nedergaard, J., Bengtsson, T., & Cannon, B. (2007). Unexpected evidence for active brown adipose tissue in adult humans. American Journal of Physiology. E... | Wikipedia - Barbara Cannon - Selected articles | 322 | 1,047 | null |
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