Professor
Joseph Stewart Fruton
(
–
)
1912
2007
Yale University
;
New Haven, CT
Biochemist; Educator
Area
Biological Sciences
Specialty
Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology
Elected
1953
Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Yale University.
Recent and current research deals with problems in the historical development of the chemical and biochemical sciences. Before 1984 research was directed to the laboratory investigation of the mode of the catalytic action of proteolytic enzymes.
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