Richard H. Holm

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Richard Hadley Holm (born September 24, 1933 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American chemist, most recently at Harvard University in Cambridge , Massachusetts.

Holm is known for his work on bioinorganic chemistry of transition metals . For the first time he was able to synthesize an analogue of the iron-sulfur cluster and make a significant contribution to the understanding of how numerous enzymes work . His work on metalloproteins bridges the gap between inorganic chemistry and biochemistry .

Life

Holm earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst , Massachusetts in 1955 and in 1959 with the thesis Spectral and magnetic studies of metal complexes: metal acetyl acetonates, spin-free cobaltous complexes . from F. Albert Cotton at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge , Massachusetts, a Ph.D.

From 1960, Holm was a lecturer at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he also received his first professorship (assistant professor) . In 1964 he received a research grant ( Sloan Research Fellowship ) from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation . After a short time as an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin (1965-1967) Holm was Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1975 he received a professorship at Stanford University in Stanford , California before returning to Harvard University in 1980. He was visiting professor at the University of Iowa (1979), Texas A&M University (1984), University of California, Berkeley (1986) and University of Florida (1998). He retired in 2013 .

Awards (selection)

The Global Journal of Inorganic Chemistry presented the Prof. Richard H. Holm Award annually for the best published work on synthetic, structural or reactive aspects of inorganic chemistry.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ T. Herskovitz, BA Averill, RH Holm, JA Ibers, WD Phillips, JF Weiher: Structure and properties of a synthetic analogue of bacterial iron-sulfur proteins. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) Volume 69, Number 9, September 1972, pp. 2437-2441, ISSN  0027-8424 . PMID 4506765 . PMC 426959 (free full text).
  2. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Richard Hadley Holm at academictree.org, accessed on February 12, 2018.
  3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter H. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed May 10, 2019 .
  4. ^ Award in Inorganic Chemistry from the American Chemical Society (acs.org); accessed on May 10, 2019.
  5. ^ RH Holm: Centenary Lecture. Metal clusters in biology: quest for a synthetic representation of the catalytic site of nitrogenase . In: Chem. Soc. Rev. No. 10 , 1981, pp. 455-490 , doi : 10.1039 / CS9811000455 .
  6. ^ Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry from the American Chemical Society ; accessed on May 10, 2019.
  7. ^ NAS Award in Chemical Sciences from the National Academy of Sciences (nasonline.org); accessed on January 14, 2016
  8. ^ Theodore William Richards Medal for Conspicuous Achievement in Chemistry at nesacs.org; accessed on May 10, 2019.
  9. ^ Fred Basolo Medal for Outstanding Research in Inorganic Chemistry: Department of Chemistry - Northwestern University. In: chemistry.northwestern.edu. Retrieved February 11, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Global Journal of Inorganic Chemistry Awards ( memento from September 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) at the Global Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (simplex-academic-publishers.com); Retrieved August 13, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Holm, Richard H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holm, Richard; Holm, Richard Hadley; Holm, Dick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts