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]

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]

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