Russell F. Doolittle

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Russell F. Doolittle (born January 10, 1931 in New Haven , Connecticut - † October 11, 2019 ) was an American biochemist .

Doolittle studied biology at Wesleyan University (bachelor's degree in 1952) and made a master's degree in education from Trinity College , Hartford in 1957 . He received his PhD in biochemistry from Harvard University in 1962 (while he was an instructor in biology at Amherst College ) and was then a postdoctoral fellow of the National Heart Institute. From 1964 he was at the University of California, San Diego , first as a researcher, from 1969 as an assistant professor and from 1972 as a professor of biochemistry.

Doolittle was known for studying the molecular evolution of proteins (including the blood system) and the structure of fibrinogen .

He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1984), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1985) and the American Philosophical Society (1992). In 1989 he received the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize . In 2006 he received the John J. Carty Award from the National Academy of Sciences. In 1984/85 he was a Guggenheim Fellow . In 1992 he received the Stein & Moose Award and in 1969 the Career Development Award from the US Public Health Service.

He was married from 1955 and had two children.

Fonts

  • Of Urfs and Orfs: A Primer on how to Analyze Derived Amino Acid , University Science Books, December 1986
  • with John N. Abelson, Melvin I. Simon, Computer Methods for Macromolecular Sequence Analysis ( Methods in Enzymology ) , Academic Press, 1996
  • with John N. Abelson, Melvin I. Simon Molecular Evolution: Computer Analysis of Protein and Nucleic Acid Sequences (Methods in Enzymology) , Academic Press, 1990
  • Editor with Michael W. Mosesson, Molecular biology of fibrinogen and fibrin , Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1983

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth and career dates from American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Obituary. In: UC San Diego. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .
  3. ^ Member History: Russell F. Doolittle. American Philosophical Society, accessed July 19, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Doolittle, Russell F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH New Haven , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 2019