Education
He graduated from Indiana University in 1971 with an Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry, and from Harvard University with a Doctor of Philosophy.in Chemical Physics in 1976.
He graduated from Indiana University in 1971 with an Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry, and from Harvard University with a Doctor of Philosophy.in Chemical Physics in 1976.
Since 2011 he has been a Bullard-Welch Foundation Professor of Science and Professor of Chemistry at the Rice University. He is widely-recognized for his significant contributions to the theories of protein folding, glasses, and gene networks. Previously he was James R. Eiszner Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Francis hockey club Crick Chair of Physical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego.
Peter G. Wolynes was born in Chicago, Illinois on April 21, 1953.
After a brief postdoctoral research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology with John Deutch. in the Fall of 1976 he became an Assistant Professor at the Chemistry department of Harvard University. In 1980 he moved to the University of Illinois, eventually becoming the Center for Advanced Study Professor of Chemistry, Physics and Biophysics.
In 2000 he moved to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego as the Francis Crick Chair in the Physical Sciences at University of California, San Diego and in addition to continuing his work on many body chemical physics, protein folding and structure prediction, he is also studying stochastic aspects of cell biology. In 2011 he moved to Rice University as the Bullard-Welch Foundation Professor of Science, and Professor of Chemistry and Physics.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Biophysical Society, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Foreign Member of the Royal Society. In 2012, he received the American College of Surgeons Award in Theoretical Chemistry.
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Royal Society; National Academy of Sciences. American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
American Physical Society.
