Frank Ross Newman Gurd

Background

Gurd, Frank Ross Newman was born on January 20, 1924 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Came to United States, 1946, naturalized, 1954. Son of Fraser Baillie and Jessie (Newman) Gurd.

Education

Graduate cum laude, Phillips Exeter Academy, 1941. Bachelor of Science, McGill University, 1945. Master of Science, McGill University, 1946.

Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard, 1949.

Career

Assistant director Bureau Medical Research, Equitable Life Assurance Society, New York City, 1955-1959. Assistant professor clinical biochemistry Medical College Cornell University, 1955-1960. Professor biochemistry School Medicine, Indiana University, 1960-1966, professor chemistry, 1965-1979, distinguished professor biochemistry and chemistry, 1979-1986, professor emeritus, from 1986.

Chairman biophysics and biophysics chemistry B study section National Institutes of Health, 1968-1970.

Achievements

• Frank Ross Newman Gurd has been listed as a noteworthy biochemist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Chemical Specificity in Biological Interactions: Memoirs of the University Laboratory of Physical Chemistry Related to Medicine and Public Healt, Harvard University (Number 3)

Membership

Member American Society Biological Chemists, American Chemical Society, Biophysics Society, New York Academy of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Ruth Sights, June 12, 1956. Children: Fraser, Kathleen, Martha, Charles.

Father:

Fraser Baillie Gurd

Mother:

Jessie (Newman) Gurd

Spouse:

Ruth Sights

child:

Charles Gurd

child:

Fraser Gurd

child:

Martha Gurd

child:

Kathleen Gurd