Lap-Chee Tsui

In 1989, Lap-Chee Tsui made a major breakthough in human genetics when he identified the defective gene that causes cystic fibrosis (the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane conductance Regulator (CFTR)). Dr. Tsui directs the Genome Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong, and his current research continues to focus on cystic fibrosis and other genetic and disease gene analysis.

Marvin H. Caruthers

Marvin H. Caruthers received a B.S. in chemistry from Iowa State University and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Dr. Caruthers is presently a member of the Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty at the University of Colorado, where he has been a Distinguished Professor since 1979.

Emile Fischer

Hermann Emil Fischer was born in 1852, at Euskirchen, in the Cologne district of Germany. Fischer desired to study physics, but his father (who actually wanted him to enter the family lumber business) sent him to the University of Bonn to study chemistry in 1871. But in 1872, however, he still wished to study physics, and was persuaded by his cousin Otto Fischer to go with him to the newly established University of Strasbourg. Here Fischer met Adolf von Baeyer, under whose influence he finally decided to devote his life to chemistry. Studying under von Baeyer, Fischer took his Ph.D.

Joe Milton McCord

Recipient of The Elliott Cresson Medal, along with Irwin Fridovich, for their work of discovering and elucidating the biology of free radical reactions and their enzymatic controls of living organisms, as well as the pathology of free radical diseases.

McCord received his Ph.D. from Duke University in biochemistry in 1970.

Information as of 1997

Irwin Fridovich

Recipient of The Elliott Cresson Medal, along with Joe Milton McCord, for their work of discovering and elucidating the biology of free radical reactions and their enzymatic controls of living organisms, as well as the pathology of free radical diseases.

Irwin Fridovich studied biochemistry at Duke University and joined their faculty after completing his Ph.D. in 1955. He served as Joe Milton McCord's mentor in the late 1960's, while McCord completed his Ph.D. at Duke.

Information as of 1997

W.G.A. Bonwill

Electro Magnetic Dental Mallet.

Mildred Cohn

Nuclear magnetic resonance analysis of enzymatic complexes

James C. Irvine

Carbohydrate chemistry

Claude Silbert Hudson

Investigation in Carbohydrate chemistry

Elizabeth F. Neufeld

Elizabeth Neufeld's principal research interests relate to the cause and treatment of human genetic disease (specifically, working on lysosomal storage diseases) and cell organelles, especially lysosomes. She is a presently Chair of the Biological Chemistry department at UCLA.

Information as of 1984