Background
Wiley, Don Craig was born on October 21, 1944 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Son of William Childs and Phyllis Rita (Norton) Wiley.
biochemistry and biophysics educator
Wiley, Don Craig was born on October 21, 1944 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Son of William Childs and Phyllis Rita (Norton) Wiley.
Wiley received his doctoral degree in biophysics in 1971 from where he worked under direction of subsequent 1976 chemistry Nobel Prize winner William North. Lipscomb, Junior. There, Wiley did early work on the structure of aspartate carbamoyltransferase, the largest molecular structure determined at that time. Noteworthy in this effort is that Wiley managed to grow crystals of aspartate carbamoyltransferase suitable for doing its x-ray structure, a particularly difficult task in the case of this molecular complex.
Assistant professor department biochemistry and molecular biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1971-1975;
associate professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1975-1979;
professor biochemistry and biophysics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1979;
department chairman molecular and cellular biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1992-1995;
investigator Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1987. Member biophysics chemistry study section National Institutes of Health, 1981-1985. Shipley Symposium lecturer Harvard Medical School, 1985, Peter A. Leermakers Symposium lecturer Wesleyan University, 1986, K.F. Meyer lecturer University of California, San Francisco, 1986, John T. Edsall lecturer Harvard University, 1987, Washburn lecturer Boston Museum Science, 1987, Harvey lecturer New York Academy Science, 1988, XVI Linus Pauling lecturer Stanford University, 1989.
Research associate in medicine Children's Hospital, Boston, since 1990.
Fellow National Academy of Sciences (lecturer 1988). Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Chemical Society (Nichol's Distinguished Symposium lecturer Northeast section 1988), American Crystallographic Association, American Society Microbiology, American Society for Chemistry and Molecular Biology, American Society for Virology, Biophysics Society (National lecturer 1989), Protein Society, American Phil.
Married Katrin Valgeirsdottir. Children: William Valgeir, Lara. Children from previous marriage: Kristen D., Craig S.