Doctoral advisor John D. Ferry Fields Chemistry Role Jr. | Name Ignacio Jr. Books Physical chemistry | |
Institutions University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Alma mater University of New Mexico, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Yale University Doctoral students Carlos Bustamante, Charles Cantor Education University of Wisconsin-Madison (1954), Yale University, University of New Mexico Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada Influenced Douglas H. Turner, Olke C. Uhlenbeck Similar People Carlos Bustamante, James C Wang, Donald Crothers, Charles Cantor | ||
Other academic advisors John G. Kirkwood | ||
Ignacio Tinoco, Jr. (1931-2016) was a Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, a position he had held since 1956.
Ignacio Tinoco received a bachelor's degree from the University of New Mexico in 1951, and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1954. He was a postdoctoral fellow with John G. Kirkwood at Yale University from 1954-56. He joined the University of California, Berkeley as a faculty member in 1956, where he is Professor in the Graduate School and a Faculty Senior Scientist, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He was Chairman of the Chemistry Department (1979–82).
His honors and awards include: Guggenheim Fellow, Medical Research Council Laboratory, Cambridge (1964); California Section Award, American Chemical Society (1965); D.Sc. University of New Mexico (1972); Member, National Academy of Sciences (1985); Elisabeth R. Cole Award (Founders Award), Biophysical Society (1996); Berkeley Citation, University of California (1996); Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001); Emily M. Gray Award, Biophysical Society (2006); Fellow: American Physical Society, Biophysical Society.
He died on November 15, 2016 at the age of 85.