Harland G. Wood
Harland G. Wood | |
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| Born | Harland Goff Wood September 2, 1907 |
| Died | September 12, 1991 (aged 84) |
| Education | Macalester College, Iowa State University |
| Known for | Fixation of CO2 by animals and bacteria |
| Spouse | Mildred Davis[1] |
| Children | Two daughters[1] |
| Awards | Eli Lilly and Company-Elanco Research Award, Rosenstiel Award, National Medal of Science |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biochemistry |
| Institutions | Iowa State University, University of Minnesota, Western Reserve University (later Case Western Reserve University) |
Harland Goff Wood (September 2, 1907 – September 12, 1991) was an American biochemist notable for proving[1][2][3][4][5] in 1935 that animals, humans and bacteria fixed carbon from carbon dioxide in the metabolic pathway to succinate.[6][7][8] (Previously CO2 fixation had been thought to occur only in plants and a few unusual autotrophic bacteria.)
Awards and honours
[edit]Wood was a recipient of the National Medal of Science.[1][3] He was on the President's Science Advisory Committee under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon.[1][3] He was also a member of the National Academy of Sciences,[1][3] a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[1] and of the Biochemical Society of Japan.[1] He was also first director of the department of biochemistry at the School of Medicine and dean of sciences, Case Western Reserve University.[3]
Chronology
[edit]- 1907: born in Delavan, MN, to Inez Goff and William Clark Wood
- 1931: B.A. Macalester College[3]
- 1935: Ph.D. Iowa State University[3]
- 1936-1943: taught Bacteriology at Iowa State University[3]
- 1943-1946: taught Physiology at the University of Minnesota[3]
- 1946-67: director of the Department of Biochemistry at the School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j National Academy of Sciences;National Academies Press:Biographical Memoirs:Harland Goff Wood;By David A. Goldthwait and Richard W. Hanson
- ^ Kresge, Nicole; Simoni, Robert D.; Hill, Robert L. (2005). "The discovery of heterotrophic carbon dioxide fixation by Harland G. Wood". J. Biol. Chem. 280 (18): 155–157 (e18). doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(20)65811-2.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j WOOD, HARLAND GOFF - The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
- ^ Singleton, R. Jr. 1998. "A passion for the laboratory: Harland Goff Wood and American Biochemistry." CenterViews (CWRU: Center for Biomedical Ethics), Winter 97/98: 1 & 5 - 6
- ^ Singleton, R. Jr. "Wood, Harland Goff" in New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (Noretta Koertge, Editor), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (In press, 2007).
- ^ Wood, H. G.; Werkman, C. H.; Hemingway, A.; Nier, A. O. (1941). "Heavy carbon as a tracer in heterotrophic carbon dioxide assimilation". J. Biol. Chem. 139: 365–376. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(19)51392-8.
- ^ Wood, H. G.; Vennesland, B.; Evans, E. A. (1945). "The Mechanism of carbon dioxide fixation by cell-free extracts of pigeon liver: Distribution of labeled carbon dioxide in the products". J. Biol. Chem. 159: 153–158. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(19)51313-8.
- ^ Utter, M. F.; Wood, H. G. (1946). "The fixation of carbon dioxide in oxalacetate by pigeon liver". J. Biol. Chem. 164: 455–476. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(18)43085-2. PMID 20989505.
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- 1907 births
- 1991 deaths
- Macalester College alumni
- University of Minnesota faculty
- Case Western Reserve University faculty
- Princeton University faculty
- 20th-century American biochemists
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- National Medal of Science laureates
- Presidents of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology