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Charles Tanford

Charles Tanford

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Chemistry

D-Index
100
Citations
58460
World Ranking
1245
National Ranking
481

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1983 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1972 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1956 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Charles Tanford was affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their career included research contributions primarily connected to this institution.

Their professional recognition included several awards over the years. In 1956, they were named Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. They became a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1972. Later, in 1983, they were elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Physical Chemistry of Macromolecules

    Charles Tanford;Maurice L. Huggins

  • The Hydrophobic Effect: Formation of Micelles and Biological Membranes

    Charles Tanford

  • The hydrophobic effect

    Charles Tanford

  • Protein denaturation. C. Theoretical models for the mechanism of denaturation.

    Charles Tanford

  • The Solubility of Amino Acids and Two Glycine Peptides in Aqueous Ethanol and Dioxane Solutions ESTABLISHMENT OF A HYDROPHOBICITY SCALE

    Yasuhiko Nozaki;Charles Tanford

  • Contribution of Hydrophobic Interactions to the Stability of the Globular Conformation of Proteins

    Charles. Tanford

  • The Gross Conformation of Protein-Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate Complexes

    Jacqueline A. Reynolds;Charles Tanford

  • The hydrophobic effect and the organization of living matter

    Charles Tanford

  • Characterization of membrane proteins in detergent solutions.

    Charles Tanford;Jacqueline A. Reynolds

  • Theory of Protein Titration Curves. I. General Equations for Impenetrable Spheres

    Charles Tanford;John G. Kirkwood

  • Phospholipid vesicle formation and transmembrane protein incorporation using octyl glucoside

    Larry T. Mimms;Guido Zampighi;Yasuhiko Nozaki;Charles Tanford

  • Properties of detergents.

    Ari Helenius;Darrell R. McCaslin;Erik Fries;Charles Tanford

  • Binding of Dodecyl Sulfate to Proteins at High Binding Ratios. Possible Implications for the State of Proteins in Biological Membranes

    Jacqueline A. Reynolds;Charles Tanford

  • THE SOLUBILITY OF AMINO ACIDS AND RELATED COMPOUNDS IN AQUEOUS UREA SOLUTIONS.

    Yasuhiko Nozaki;Charles Tanford

  • The Estimation of Polypeptide Chain Molecular Weights by Gel Filtration in 6 M Guanidine Hydrochloride

    Wayne W. Fish;Kenneth G. Mann;Charles Tanford

  • Viscosity and density of aqueous solutions of urea and guanidine hydrochloride.

    Kazuo Kawahara;Charles Tanford

  • Proteins as Random Coils. I. Intrinsic Viscosities and Sedimentation Coefficients in Concentrated Guanidine Hydrochloride

    Charles. Tanford;Kazuo. Kawahara;Savo. Lapanje

  • Molecular characterization of proteins in detergent solutions.

    Charles Tanford;Yashiko Nozaki;Jacqueline A. Reynolds;Shio Makino

  • The Interpretation Of Hydrogen Ion Titration Curves Of Proteins

    Charles Tanford

  • Interpretation of protein titration curves. Application to lysozyme

    Charles Tanford;Robert Roxby

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward A. Johnson
Edward A. Johnson University of Calgary
Kenneth G. Mann
Kenneth G. Mann University of Vermont
Ingemar Björk
Ingemar Björk Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Norman M. Schechter
Norman M. Schechter University of Pennsylvania
John L. Woolford
John L. Woolford Carnegie Mellon University
Robert L. Hill
Robert L. Hill Duke University
Ari Helenius
Ari Helenius ETH Zurich
John G. Kirkwood
John G. Kirkwood Yale University

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