Nationality United States | Role Author Name Donald Voet | |
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Born November 29, 1938 (age 85) ( 1938-11-29 ) Books Fundamentals of Biochemi, Principles of Biochemistry, Lehrbuch Der Biochemie, Biochemistry, Biochemistry - The Expressio | ||
Academic advisor William Lipscomb | ||
1 of 8 donald voet oliver franklin introductions to the 1988 nobel laureates symposium
Donald Herman Voet (born November 29, 1938) is an Emeritus Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. His laboratory uses x-ray crystallography to understand structure-function relationships in proteins. He and his wife, Judith G. Voet, are authors of biochemistry text books that are widely used in undergraduate and graduate curricula.
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- 1 of 8 donald voet oliver franklin introductions to the 1988 nobel laureates symposium
- Education
- Career
- Notable publications
- References
Education
Voet earned his B.S. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1960 and his Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University with William N. Lipscomb, Jr. in 1967.
Career
He completed his postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969 in the laboratory of Alexander Rich. He later became a professor in the chemistry department at the University of Pennsylvania. Voet and his wife are coeditors-in-chief of the journal Biochemical and Molecular Biology Education.