William Rose (chemist)

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William Cumming Rose (born April 4, 1887 in Greenville , † September 25, 1985 in Urbana ) was an American chemist and nutritionist. He is known for discovering the essential amino acid threonine .

Rose received her PhD from Yale University in 1911 . He built up the Department of Biochemistry at the Medical School of the University of Texas at Galveston and became Professor of Physiological Chemistry at the University of Illinois in 1922 (renamed Professor of Biochemistry in 1936). In 1955 he retired.

In 1966 he received the National Medal of Science , in 1952 the Willard Gibbs Medal , in 1949 the Osborne and Mendel Award from the American Institute of Nutrition (of which he was president in 1945/46) and in 1957 the Charles F. Spencer Medal from the American Chemical Society. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1936) and President of the American Society of Biological Chemists from 1939 to 1941. In 1952 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Illinois.

The William C. Rose Award of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , which has been presented since 1979, is named in his honor.

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