Douglas H. Turner

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Douglas "Doug" H. Turner is an American chemist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Rochester.

Douglas H. Turner
Website	http://rna.chem.rochester.edu/

Early life

Turner grew up in Brooklyn, New York.

Education

Turner attended

There, he invented fluorescence detected circular dichroism for measuring the optical activity of the fluorescent component of a solution.

Professional life and scientific achievements

In 1975, Turner joined the faculty of the Chemistry Department at the

(Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1989) during 2 sabbatical years at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Turner has been unusually lucky with his own academic family of 8 postdocs, 49 students who have graduated with Ph.D.'s, and his other collaborators. Together, they have discovered many of the fundamental principles that determine RNA structure. ^[1] These principles, occasionally dubbed "Turner Rules",^[2] are used in many .

Recently, Turner and collaborators have used Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Molecular Dynamics simulations of short RNAs to test understanding of the sequence dependence of stacking interactions.^[6][7] Much remains to be discovered.

Papers coauthored by Turner have been cited over 18,000 times. The work has also been recognized by Sloan and Guggenheim Fellowships, election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), selection by the American Chemical Society as a Gordon Hammes Lecturer, continuous funding of an NIH grant from 1976 to 2019, and coauthorship of more than 250 papers. With Ryszard Kierzek from the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry in Poznan, he shared the AAAS Poland-US Science Award in 2016.

Turner has also served the scientific community by often teaching the first year undergraduate Chemistry course and the graduate Biophysical Chemistry course, by being a member of several NIH Study Sections, the Advisory Board of the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry in Poznan, and the editorial board of the Biophysical Journal. He also co-chaired a Nucleic Acids Gordon Conference.

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