Lubert Stryer | |
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| Born | March 2, 1938 Tianjin, China |
| Died | April 8, 2024 (aged 86) Stanford, California, U.S. |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | University of Chicago (B.S. 1957) Harvard Medical School (M.D.) |
| Known for | Textbook Biochemistry (ten editions) |
| Awards | National Academy of Sciences, European Inventor of the Year (2006), Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biochemistry, fluorescence spectroscopy |
| Institutions | Department of physics at Harvard; MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge, UK; department of biochemistry at Stanford University; Yale University |
| Notable students | Richard P. Haugland, Jeremy M. Berg |
Lubert Stryer (March 2, 1938 – April 8, 2024) was an American academic who was the Emeritus Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor of Cell Biology, at Stanford University School of Medicine.[1][2] His research over more than four decades had been centered on the interplay of light and life. In 2007 he received the National Medal of Science from President Bush at a ceremony at the White House for elucidating the biochemical basis of signal amplification in vision, pioneering the development of high density microarrays for genetic analysis, and authoring the standard undergraduate biochemistry textbook, Biochemistry.[3] It is now in its tenth edition and also edited by Jeremy Berg, Justin Hines, John L. Tymoczko and Gregory J. Gatto, Jr.[4]
Stryer received his B.S. degree from the University of Chicago in 1957 and his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School. He was a Helen Hay Whitney Research Fellow[5] in the department of physics at Harvard and then at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology[6] in Cambridge, England, before joining the faculty of the department of biochemistry at Stanford in 1963. In 1969 he moved to Yale to become Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and in 1976, he returned to Stanford to head a new Department of Structural Biology.[2][7]
Stryder died in Stanford, California April 8, 2024, at the age of 86.[8]
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- ^ "President to Award 2005-2006 National Medals of Science and National Medals of Technology Honoring Nation's Leading Researchers, Inventors and Innovators - NSF - National Science Foundation".
- ^ Stryer; et al. (2023). Biochemistry (10 ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1319498504.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on November 14, 2012. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
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- ^ McCarthy, Pumtiwitt. "Everything is illuminated: 'Reflections' on light and life by Lubert Stryer". American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Retrieved June 19, 2016.
- ^ Bai, Nina (May 1, 2024). "Lubert Stryer, luminary scientist of light and life, author of classic textbook, dies at 86". Stanford Medicine. Retrieved May 4, 2024.