Robert A. Alberty

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Robert Arnold Alberty
University of Nebraska, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Known forenzyme kinetics, biochemical thermodynamics
AwardsNational Academy of Sciences, 1965; American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1968
Scientific career
FieldsBiophysical chemistry
Notable studentsGordon Hammes

Robert Arnold Alberty (1921–2014) was an American

National Academy of Sciences
.

Alberty earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the

biochemical thermodynamics, Alberty was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1965. In 1968 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[1]
He was dean of the MIT School of Science between 1967-1982.

Alberty is also known for his textbooks on

Moungi G. Bawendi
(2004). Other works include Thermodynamics of Biochemical Reactions (2003) and Biochemical Thermodynamics: Applications of Mathematica (Methods of Biochemical Analysis) (2006).

He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 92 on January 18, 2014.[2] Towards the end of his life he wrote a short account of his life and scientific career.[3]

Research

At the beginning of his career Alberty worked principally on aspects of

mechanisms of enzyme-catalysed reactions,[5][6] initially studying fumarase in particular.[6] He was among the first to consider the kinetics of reactions with more than one substrate,[7] and in the years that followed there was hardly any aspect of enzyme kinetics he did not touch, his work including, for example, studies of pH,[8] integrated rate equations,[9] reversible reactions,[9] effects of temperature,[10] effects of buffers and inhibitors,[11]
and others.

Alberty's early interest in the ionization of adenosine phosphates[12] and of thermodynamic aspects of biochemical reactions

IUPAC on recommendations for presenting data for biochemical thermodynamics.[15]

Although he was primarily concerned with single enzyme-catalysed reactions, he also did some work with systems of more than one enzyme, such as the urea cycle.[16]

See also

Kenneth Burton

References

  1. ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
  2. ^ Robert Alberty, professor emeritus of chemistry and former dean of science, dies at 92
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  5. doi:10.1021/ja01104a045
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    doi:10.1021/ja01104a043
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  8. PMID 13140346
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    doi:10.1021/ja01581a011
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  10. doi:10.1021/ja00898a003
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  15. PMID 21501921
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  16. PMID 9129838
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