Howard C. Berg
Howard Curtis Berg (born March 16, 1934 in Iowa City ) is an American biophysicist.
Berg received his bachelor's degree from Caltech in 1956 and his master's degree from Harvard University in 1960 , where he received his PhD in chemical physics in 1964. From 1963 to 1966 he was a Junior Fellow at Harvard. In 1966 he became Assistant Professor of Biology and later Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Harvard and from 1974 to 1979 he was Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. 1979 to 1986 he was a professor at Caltech and from 1986 he was again a professor at Harvard (Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Physics).
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (since 1984), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1985), the American Philosophical Society (since 2002) and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (since 1985) and the American Physical Society .
He studies the chemical structure of cell membranes and the locomotion and chemotaxis of bacteria.
In 1984 he received the Max Delbruck Prize and in 2014 the Sackler Prize for Biophysics.
He has been married to Mary E. Guyer since 1964 and has three children.
Fonts
- E. coli in motion . Springer, New York a. a. 2003, ISBN 0-387-00888-8 .
- Random walks in biology . Princeton University Press 1983, 1993
- with Hans Frauenfelder Physics and Biology . Physics Today, February 1994
- How Bacteria Swim . Scientific American, August 1975
- Motile behavior of bacteria . Physics Today, Volume 53, Jan 2000, 24-29.
- The rotary motor of bacterial flagella . Annu. Rev. Biochem. 72, 2003, 19-54.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berg, Howard C. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Berg, Howard Curtis (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American biophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Iowa City |