Rowena Green Matthews

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Rowena Margaret Green Matthews (born August 20, 1938 in Cambridge , England ) is an American biochemist and biophysicist .

Life

Rowena Green Matthews was born in Cambridge in 1938, the first-born daughter of David E. Green and Doris Cribb. Her father, who was from the United States , was a biochemist at the University of Cambridge , where he received his PhD in 1934, and her Cambridge-born mother was the director of the design department at the Cambridge School of Art . In 1940 the family moved to the USA. She spent most of her youth in New York City and Madison , Wisconsin , where her father worked from 1948 at the University of Wisconsin – Madison for 35 years.

In 1956 she went to Radcliffe College in Cambridge , Massachusetts , where she made her bachelor's degree in biology in 1960 . She then worked for a few years at Harvard University in the laboratory of George Wald , who, together with Ragnar Granit and Haldan Keffer Hartline, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1967 for studying the physiological and chemical processes in the eye , which made her embark on an academic career animated. In 1965 she went to the University of Michigan , where she in 1969 Biophysics with the work Free and complexed forms of old yellow enzymes: Their physical and catalytic properties doctorate .

Rowena Green Matthews later got a post-doctoral position in the Department of Biological Chemistry at the University of Michigan Medical School, where she later became a professor and earned the title of G. Robert Greenberg Distinguished University Professor of Biological Chemistry in 1995 . She was also Professor of Chemistry at the University's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA); today professor emeritus . In her research, she examined the mechanisms of enzymes that use folic acid and cobalamine as cofactors as well as the function of methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) and identified the MTHFR-producing gene with her colleagues . Martha L. Ludwig's laboratory was involved in the crystal structure analysis of MTHFR .

Rowena Green Matthews is married to the orthopedic surgeon Larry Matthews, with whom she has two children. Her niece, Tammy Baldwin , has been a US Senator from Wisconsin since 2013 .

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literature

Web links

  • Rowena Matthews, Ph.D. Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School. Retrieved July 16, 2014.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrea Kovacs Henderson: American men & women of science (Volume 5). 26th edition, Thomson / Gale, Detroit 2009, ISBN 978-1414433059 , p. 282.
  2. ↑ Helmut Beinert, Paul K. Stumpf, Salih J. Wakil: DAVID EZRA GREEN 1910–1983. In: Biographical Memoirs. Vol. 84, 2003, pp. 112-145, here pp. 114-116.
  3. ^ A b c Rowena G. Matthews: A Love Affair with Vitamins. In: The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Vol. 284, No. 39, 2009, pp. 26217-26228, doi : 10.1074 / jbc.X109.041178 .
  4. ↑ a b Structural Enzymology: A Symposium Honoring Dr. Rowena E. Matthews. ( Memento of March 4, 2016 on the Internet Archive ) University of Michigan, May 18-19. May 2007.
  5. ^ William C. Rose Award. American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, ASBMB. Retrieved July 16, 2014.
  6. ^ Winner of the Repligen Corporation Award in the Chemistry of Biological Processes. American Chemical Society, Division of Biological Chemistry. Retrieved July 16, 2014.
  7. ^ Rowena G. Matthews, University of Michigan. National Academy of Sciences, Members. Retrieved July 16, 2014.
  8. ^ Book of Members, Chapter M. American Academy of Arts & Sciences, p. 363. Retrieved July 16, 2014.
  9. ^ Member History: Rowena G. Matthews. American Philosophical Society, accessed November 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Matthews, Rowena Green
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matthews, Rowena Margaret Green
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biochemist and biophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambridge