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Judith Klinman

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Nationality
  
American

Fields
  
Biochemistry


Role
  
Chemist

Name
  
Judith Klinman

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Institutions
  
University of California at Berkeley

Alma mater
  
University of Pennsylvania

Education
  
University of Pennsylvania (1966)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada, National Medal of Science for Chemistry

Residence
  
California, United States

Notable awards
  
National Medal of Science

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Judith P. Klinman is an American chemist known for her work on enzyme catalysis. She earned her A.B. from University of Pennsylvania in 1962 and Ph.D. from the same university in 1966. She became the first female faculty member in the chemistry department in University of California, Berkeley. Her group has discovered that room temperature nuclear tunneling occurs among various enzymatic reactions, and clarified the dynamics of tunneling process through data analysis. They have also discovered the quino-enzymes.

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Honors and awards

  • In 2012, she was awarded the National Medal of Science.
  • In 2015, she received the Mildred Cohn Award in Biological Chemistry from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
  • References

    Judith Klinman Wikipedia