Education
Doctor Kent was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1975.
Doctor Kent was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1975.
He also demonstrated the principle that mirror-image amino acids put together to form a protein create a mirror-image protein which, if an enzyme, can catalyze the mirror-image reaction. Currently, he is studying protein racemic crystallography. He obtained his Master of Science at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand in 1970, and a Bachelor of Science degree in 1968 from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Following his post-doctoral work in the laboratory of R. B. Merrifield at the Rockefeller University, Doctor Kent continued research there as an assistant professor until 1981.
He has also held faculty positions at the California Institute of Technology, Bond University in Australia, and the Scripps Research Institute in California. Currently Doctor Kent is a Professor in the Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago.
He also served as the Director of the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics from 2003-2009. He was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2000.