Robert Glaeser

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Robert Martin Glaeser (born July 20, 1934 in Kenosha , Wisconsin ) is an American biochemist , biophysicist and structural biologist . The main research area is electron diffraction and membrane models .

Glaeser studied at the University of Wisconsin – Madison (BA 1959) and the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. 1964). He was then a postdoc at the University of Oxford (1963/64) and University of Chicago (1964/65). In 1988/89 he was a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry (MPIB) in Martinsried near Munich, later professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Glaeser received the Humboldt Research Award . In 1983 he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . In 2016 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences . For 2018 he was awarded the Glenn T. Seaborg Medal .

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  2. Allan L. Bednowitz, EN Maslen: World Directory of crystallographers: And of Other Scientists Employing Crystallographic Methods , Springer Science & Business Media, 2013, p 211