John E. Hearst

J. E. Hearst (born 1935) is an American-Austrian chemist in the fields of chemistry and molecular biology and a Professor Emeritus at University of California Berkeley.[1] He is known for his scientific work in molecular biology, especially in DNA modeling. He has a high number of citations to his work (20,520) and an h-index of 74.[2] He is also an author of a book on general chemistry.[3]

John E. Hearst
Born1935 (age 85–86)
Vienna, Austria
NationalityUnited States
Alma mater
Known forDNA modeling
AwardsFellow AAAS, Guggenheim Fellow
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of California Berkeley

Biography

Hearst was born in Vienna, Austria, and later moved to United States for higher studies. He completed his B.E. from Yale University in 1957 followed by a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1961, with advisor the well-known molecular biologist Prof. Jonathan Singer. He became a Miller Professor at Berkeley in 1970 followed by an illuminated career in science and scientific leadership,[1] among other key appointments serving as the Senior Staff Scientist, Structural Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1980-1999), and as the Director, Chemical Biodynamics Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory for two terms (1986–87, 1988–89). He served as a President of the American Society for Photobiology (1991–92).

He advised a number of graduate students during his career and led the Hearst Research Laboratory/group at Berkeley till his retirement.[4]

Hearst was awarded an honorary degree of D.Sc. by Lehigh University in 1992. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In past, he has been elected as a Guggenheim Fellow as well.[1] He is also a consultant with biotech industry.[5]

References
  1. http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/faculty/chem/emeriti/hearst
  2. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3691TcwAAAAJ&hl=en
  3. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3707656-general-chemistry
  4. http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/jehgrp/
  5. https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=215532&privcapId=26334
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