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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1955 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1953 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1951 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1940 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

John T. Edsall was affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their career involved contributions to academic research without specific records of recent papers, co-authors, or frequent publication venues in the available data.

The scientist's professional recognition includes several prestigious honors. These include being elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1955, and twice receiving a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1940 and again in 1953. Additionally, they were a Member of the National Academy of Sciences as of 1951.

While detailed information on particular fields of study, subfields, or main research topics is unavailable, these honors reflect a career with notable scientific contributions acknowledged by leading institutions.

Best Publications

  • Esterase Activities of Human Carbonic Anhydrases B and C

    Jacob A. Verpoorte;Suchinta Mehta;John T. Edsall

  • Purification and Properties of Human Erythrocyte Carbonic Anhydrases

    J.McD. Armstrong;Dirck V. Myers;Jacob A. Verpoorte;John T. Edsall

  • CARBONIC ANHYDRASES FROM HUMAN ERYTHROCYTES. PREPARATION AND PROPERTIES OF TWO ENZYMES.

    Egon E. Rickli;S.A.S. Ghazanfar;Barbara H. Gibbons;John T. Edsall

  • Proteins, amino acids and peptides as ions and dipolar ions

    Unknown

  • The Reactions of Formaldehyde with Amino Acids and Proteins

    Dexter French;John T. Edsall

  • Preparation and Properties of Serum and Plasma Proteins. XVIII. The Separation of Purified Fibrinogen from Fraction I of Human Plasma.

    Peter R. Morrison;John T. Edsall;Susan G. Miller

  • Rate of Hydration of Carbon Dioxide and Dehydration of Carbonic Acid at 25

    Barbara H. Gibbons;John T. Edsall

  • A proposal of standard conventions and nomenclature for the description of polypeptide conformations.

    John T. Edsall;Paul J. Flory;John C. Kendrew;A.M. Liquori

  • AMINO ACID COMPOSITION OF HUMAN AND BOVINE SERUM MERCAPTALBUMINS.

    P.F. Spahr;John T. Edsall

  • The Association of Imidazole with the Ions of Zinc and Cupric Copper1a,b,c

    John T. Edsall;Gary Felsenfeld;DeWitt S. Goodman;Frank R. N. Gurd

  • Double Refraction of Flow: Numerical Evaluation of Extinction Angle and Birefringence as a Function of Velocity Gradient

    Harold A. Scheraga;John T. Edsall;J. Orten Gadd

  • Light Scattering in Solutions of Serum Albumin: Effects of Charge and Ionic Strength1,2

    John T. Edsall;Harold Edelhoch;René Lontie;Peter R. Morrison

  • Light scattering in protein solutions.

    Paul Doty;John T. Edsall

  • A Simple Method for Determining the Polarization of Raman Lines

    John T. Edsall;E. Bright Wilson

  • A proposal of standard conventions and nomenclature for the description of polypeptide conformations: COMMUNICATION TO THE EDITORS

    John T. Edsall;Paul J. Flory;John C. Kendrew;A. M. Liquori

  • Physical biochemistry. 2nd ed: By Henry B. Bull, Professor of Chemistry, School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois. John Wiley and Sons, New York, N. Y., 1951. viii + 355 pp. Price $5.75

    John T. Edsall

  • Raman Spectra of Amino Acids and Related Substances III. Ionization and Methylation of the Amino Group

    John T. Edsall

  • Apparent Molal Heat Capacities of Amino Acids and Other Organic Compounds

    John T. Edsall

  • The Activity Ratio of Zwitterions and Uncharged Molecules in Ampholyte Solutions. The Dissociation Constants of Amino Acid Esters

    John T. Edsall;Muriel H. Blanchard

  • Ultraviolet difference spectra of tyrosine groups in proteins and amino acids.

    Donald B. Wetlaufer;John T. Edsall;Barbara R. Hollingworth

  • Raman Spectra of Amino Acids and Related Compounds I. The Ionization of the Carboxyl Group

    John T. Edsall

  • Book reviewLight-scattering in physical chemistry: By K. A. Stacey, Chester Beatty Cancer Research Institute, London. Butterworths Scientific Publications, London; and Academic Press, New York, 1956. viii + 230 pp. Price $6.75

    John T. Edsall

Frequent Co-Authors

R. Bruce Martin
R. Bruce Martin University of Virginia
Harold A. Scheraga
Harold A. Scheraga Cornell University
Paul J. Flory
Paul J. Flory Stanford University
George Nemethy
George Nemethy Cornell University
Elliot L. Elson
Elliot L. Elson Washington University in St. Louis
Bernard D. Davis
Bernard D. Davis Harvard University
Lynn M. Riddiford
Lynn M. Riddiford University of Washington
Matthew Meselson
Matthew Meselson Harvard University
Peter Morrison
Peter Morrison University of Alaska Fairbanks

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