Ralph Granville Yount

Background

Yount, Ralph Granville was born on March 25, 1932 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry, Wabash College, 1954; Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry, Iowa State University, 1958.

Career

Postdoctoral associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, 1958-1960; assistant professor of chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, 1960-1967; associate professor of chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, 1967-1972; professor and chairman biochemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, 1972-1979; professor biochemistry and chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, since 1979; department chairman chemical, Washington State University, Pullman, since 1998.

Achievements

• Ralph Granville Yount has been listed as a noteworthy Biochemistry and chemistry educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Chairman fellowship committee Muscular Dystrophy Association, Tucson, 1986-1991, vice president, 1987-1992. Member committee A of National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda,1986-1990. Member biochemistry/biophysics panel National Science Foundation, 1982-1985.

Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Biophysics Society (national county president 1994-1995), American Chem.Soc., American Society Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (publications committee), Federal American Society Experimental Biology (board directors 1994-1998, vice president 1996-1997, president 1997-1998).

Connections

Son of Granville Emery and Edythe Margaret (Bratton) Y.;m. Valerie Ann Piepho, June 22, 1957. Children: Jonathan, Andrea, Alison.

Father:

Granville Emery Yount

Mother:

Edythe Margaret (Bratton) Yount

child:

Alison Yount

child:

Jonathan Yount

child:

Andrea Yount