Donald Voet | |
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Born | November 29, 1938 |
Died | April 11, 2023 | (aged 84)
Alma mater | California Institute of Technology Harvard University |
Known for | X-ray crystallography, textbook author |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biochemistry |
Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
Thesis | Some borane derivative structures (1967) |
Doctoral advisor | William Lipscomb |
Donald Herman Voet (November 29, 1938 – April 11, 2023) was an American biochemist who was emeritus associate professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. His laboratory used x-ray crystallography to understand structure-function relationships in proteins.[1] He and his wife, Judith G. Voet, are authors of biochemistry text books that are widely used in undergraduate and graduate curricula.[2][3][4][5]
Voet was born on November 29, 1938.[6] He earned his B.S. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1960 and his Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University with William N. Lipscomb, Jr. in 1967.[5][7][8]
Voet completed his postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969 in the laboratory of Alexander Rich. He later became a professor in the chemistry department at the University of Pennsylvania. Voet and his wife were coeditors-in-chief of the journal Biochemical and Molecular Biology Education.[1][5]
Voet died on April 11, 2023, at the age of 84.[9]