Albert Baird Hastings

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Albert Baird Hastings (born November 20, 1895 in Dayton , Kentucky , † September 24, 1987 in La Jolla , California ) was an American biochemist at Harvard Medical School and the Scripps Research Institute . He made a contribution to the development of biochemistry into a quantitative science.

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Hastings grew up in Indianapolis , Indiana . He enrolled in 1913 at the University of Michigan initially for chemical engineering , then but received 1917 Floyd E. Bartell a degree in chemistry . During the First World War he worked for the United States Public Health Service , where he first came into contact with physiology in his work under Frederic S. Lee on research into fatigue . In 1921 Hastings earned a Ph.D. from Ernest L. Scott at Columbia University. As a postdoctoral fellow he worked with Donald D. Van Slyke at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research until 1926 , where he made important contributions to the balance of electrolytes in human blood.

In 1926 Hastings received a professorship at the University of Chicago , where he researched, among other things, bone metabolism. In 1935 he moved to Harvard Medical School as the successor to Otto Folin . Here he was one of the pioneers in the study of metabolism using radioactively labeled metabolites . From 1941 to 1946 Hastings served on the Committee on Medical Research providing medical and scientific support to the United States Armed Forces and their allies. In 1959 Hastings took over the management of the Scripps Research Institute , also to be able to do more of his own research again. The facility became a branch of the University of California, San Diego , where Hastings became a professor in 1966. Here he mainly worked on the carbon metabolism of the liver .

Hastings's students included Christian B. Anfinsen , George F. Cahill Jr. , Manfred Kiese , Herbert Tabor, and Birgit Vennesland . Hastings had been married to Margaret Johnson Hastings since 1918. Their son Baird Hastings (1919-2007) became a well-known conductor.

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  1. ^ History of Scripps Research. In: scripps.edu. Scripps Research , accessed February 1, 2020 .
  2. ^ Albert Amateau: Baird Hastings, eclectic music director, dies at 88. In: thevillager.com. The Villager, June 5, 2007, accessed February 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter H. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved February 1, 2020 .
  4. ↑ A. Baird Hastings. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences , accessed February 1, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Dr. A. Baird Hastings. In: amphilsoc.org. American Philosophical Society , accessed February 1, 2020 .
  6. ^ Past presidents. In: asbmb.org. American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, accessed February 1, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement Award: American Diabetes Association (English) ( Memento of November 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
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SURNAME Hastings, Albert Baird
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hastings, A. Baird
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Dayton , Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1987
Place of death La Jolla , California