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Edsall, John Tileston was born on November 3, 1902 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of David Linn and Margaret Harding (Tileston) Edsall.
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professor of Biological Chemistry
Edsall, John Tileston was born on November 3, 1902 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of David Linn and Margaret Harding (Tileston) Edsall.
AB, Harvard University, 1923. Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, 1928. Postgraduate, Cambridge University, England, 1926.
Honorary Doctor of Science, University Chicago. Honorary Doctor of Science, Western Reserve University. Honorary Doctor of Science, University Michigan.
Honorary Doctor of Science, New York Medical College. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Göteborg, Sweden, 1972.
Assistant Professor, of Biological Chemistry, Harvard University 1932-1938, Association Professor 1938-1951, Professor 1951-1973, Professor Emeritus 1973. Guggenheim Fellow, Calif Institute of Technology 1940-1941. Lecturer, Cambridge 1952, Tokyo 1964.
Visiting Professor, College, de France, Paris 1955. Spiers Memorial Lecturer, Faraday Society, Cambridge 1952. Visiting Lecturer, Australian National University, Canberra 1970.
Scholar Fogarty Institute Center, National Instituts of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 1970-1971. President American Society of Biological Chemists 1957-1958, Sixth Institute Congress of Biochemistry, New York 1964. Chairman Survey of Sources for the History of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 1975-1980.
Visiting Professor, University of California, Los Angeles 1977, University of California, Riverside 1980. Chairman 1979-1981; Foreign.
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Author: (with E.J. Cohn) Proteins, Amino Acids and Peptides, 1943, (with J. Wyman) Biophysical Chemistry, 1958, (with H. Gutfreund) Biothermodynamics, 1983. Editor: (with F.M. Richards, C.B. Anfinsen, D.S. Eisenberg and others) Advances in Protein Chemistry, Vols. 1-47, 1944-1995, 1995, Journal Biological Chemistry, 1958-1967.(with D. Bearman) Archival Sources for the History of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1980. Chairman editorial board Proceedings National Academy of Sciences, 1968-1972. Chairman survey of sources The History of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1975-1980.Contributor articles to professional journals.
Member American Philosophical Society, National Academy of Sciences, American Chemical Society (secretary division biological chemistry 1946-1948, chairman 1948-1949, Willard Gibbs medal Chicago section 1972), American Society Biological Chemists (president 1957-1958), American Academy Arts and Sciences (representative on United States National Commission for United Nations Educational 1950-1956), American Association for the Advancement of Science (member committee on science freedom and responsibility 1976-1982, chairman 1979-1981, Philip Hauge Abelson award 1989), Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher, European Molecular Biology Organization (associate), Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Married Margaret Dunham, May 1, 1929 (deceased 1987). Children– James Lawrence Dunham (deceased), David Tileston, Nicholas Cranford.