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Overview

John H. Richards is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States and has contributed research across multiple disciplines, primarily within social sciences and medicine. Their work spans several specialized fields including education, safety research, biochemistry, nutrition and dietetics, and organic chemistry.

The scientist's research interests cover a range of topics. These include poverty, education, and child welfare; school choice and performance; antioxidant activity and oxidative stress; vitamin C and antioxidants research; free radicals and antioxidants; social and economic development in India; and religious education and schools.

Richards has published multiple papers in well-regarded journals. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Vitamin E: Not only a single stereoisomer," 2024, Free Radical Biology and Medicine
  • "Schooling without learning is a terrible waste of precious resources and of human potential" - The South Asian paradox, 2023, International Journal of Educational Development
  • "Why are school systems in South Asia seriously under-performing?", 2022, International Journal of Educational Development
  • "Reverse Remodeling of Methamphetamine-Associated Cardiomyopathy: An Update on Mechanisms for Recovery," 2024, Medical Research Archives
  • "Extending ASER as an assessment tool throughout South Asia," 2024, International Journal of Educational Development

Richards frequently publishes in the International Journal of Educational Development, Medical Research Archives, and Free Radical Biology and Medicine. These venues have hosted three, three, and one of their papers respectively.

Collaboration has played a significant role in Richards' work. Frequent co-authors include Andrew Richards, Erik G. Laurin, Manfred Eggersdorfer, Kristina Schmidt, and Szabolcs Péter.

Best Publications

  • Determination of intracellular pH by 31P magnetic resonance.

    Richard B. Moon;John H. Richards

  • A chemically synthesized pre-sequence of an imported mitochondrial protein can form an amphiphilic helix and perturb natural and artificial phospholipid bilayers.

    David Roise;Suzanna J. Horvath;John M. Tomich;John H. Richards

  • Tryptophan-Accelerated Electron Flow Through Proteins

    Crystal Shih;Anna Katrine Museth;Malin Abrahamsson;Ana Maria Blanco-Rodriguez

  • Electron Tunneling in Proteins: Coupling Through a β Strand

    Ralf Langen;I-Jy Chang;Juris P. Germanas;John H. Richards

  • Chemical Shifts in C_5H_5^-, C_6H_6 and C_7H_7^+; Chemical Shifts and π-Electron Densities

    Gideon Fraenkel;Robert E. Carter;Andrew McLachlan;John H. Richards

  • Amphiphilicity is essential for mitochondrial presequence function.

    David Roise;Franziska Theiler;Suzanna J. Horvath;John M. Tomich

  • Carbon nuclear magnetic resonance studies of the histidine residue in α-lytic protease. Implications for the catalytic mechanism of serine proteases

    Michael W. Hunkapiller;Stephen H. Smallcombe;Donald R. Whitaker;John H. Richards

  • Oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis as a general and powerful method for studies of protein function

    G Dalbadie-McFarland;L W Cohen;A D Riggs;C Morin

  • Electron tunneling in biological molecules

    Jay R. Winkler;Angel J. Di Bilio;Neil A. Farrow;John H. Richards

  • Construction and characterization of an azurin analog for the purple copper site in cytochrome c oxidase

    Michael Hay;John H. Richards;Yi Lu

  • Carbonium Ion Stabilization by Metallocene Nuclei. II. α-Metallocenylcarbonium Ions

    E. Alexander Hill;John H. Richards

  • α-metallocenyl carbonium ions

    John H. Richards;E. Alexander Hill

  • Carbonium Ion Stabilization by Metallocene Nuclei. III. Evidence for Metal Participation

    E. Alexander Hill;John H. Richards

  • Water-soluble, recombinant CuA-domain of the cytochrome ba3 subunit II from Thermus thermophilus.

    Claire E. Slutter;Donita Sanders;Pernilla Wittung;Bo G. Malmström

  • Coupling to Lysine-13 Promotes Electron Tunneling through Carboxylate-Terminated Alkanethiol Self-Assembled Monolayers to Cytochrome c

    Katsumi Niki;W. Reef Hardy;Michael G. Hill;H. Li

  • Mechanism of action of adenosylcobalamin: glycerol and other substrate analogs as substrates and inactivators for propanediol dehydratase - kinetics, stereospecificity, and mechanism

    William W. Bachovchin;Robert G. Eagar;Kevin W. Moore;John H. Richards

  • Mimicking Protein−Protein Electron Transfer: Voltammetry of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Azurin and the Thermus thermophilus CuA Domain at ω-Derivatized Self-Assembled-Monolayer Gold Electrodes

    Kyoko Fujita;Nobufumi Nakamura;Hiroyuki Ohno;Brian S. Leigh

  • Properties of photogenerated tryptophan and tyrosyl radicals in structurally characterized proteins containing rhenium(I) tricarbonyl diimines.

    Angel J. Di Bilio;Brian R. Crane;William A. Wehbi;Cynthia N. Kiser

  • An outer-sphere hydrogen-bond network constrains copper coordination in blue proteins.

    Michael C Machczynski;Harry B Gray;John H Richards

  • Long-Range Electron Transfer in Ruthenium-Modified Cytochromes c. σ-Tunneling Pathways through Aromatic Residues

    Danilo R. Casimiro;John H. Richards;Jay R. Winkler;Harry B. Gray

Frequent Co-Authors

Harry B. Gray
Harry B. Gray California Institute of Technology
Jay R. Winkler
Jay R. Winkler California Institute of Technology
Michael W. Hunkapiller
Michael W. Hunkapiller Pacific Biosciences (United States)
John M. Tomich
John M. Tomich Kansas State University
Ralf Langen
Ralf Langen University of Southern California
William W. Bachovchin
William W. Bachovchin Tufts University
Brian R. Crane
Brian R. Crane Cornell University
Hiroyuki Ohno
Hiroyuki Ohno Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Yi Lu
Yi Lu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
James A. Fee
James A. Fee Scripps Research Institute

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