Ken A. Dill

Ken A. Dill
Born1947
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
University of California, San Diego
Known forHydrophobic-polar protein folding model
AwardsMax Delbruck Prize (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, Chemistry, Biology, Computational Biology
InstitutionsStony Brook University
Doctoral advisorBruno H. Zimm

Kenneth Austin Dill (born 1947) is a biophysicist and chemist best known for his work in folding pathways of proteins. He is the director of the Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology at Stony Brook University. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2008.[1] He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014. He has been a co-editor or editor of the Annual Review of Biophysics since 2013.[2]

  1. ^ S. Gupta, 2012, Profile of Ken A. Dill, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 109(9):3194–3196 (February 28, 2012), DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1200576109, see [1], accessed 6 June 2014.
  2. ^ Rees, Douglas C. (2012). "Preface". Annual Review of Biophysics. 41. doi:10.1146/annurev-bb-41-050712-100001.