Xuong Nguyen-Huu

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Xuong Nguyen-Huu (

biological macromolecules.[1][2]

Career

Nguyen received his

Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley (1962).[1][3]

He is a

Electron Microscopy.[2] He is also inventor of "Xuong’s X-Ray Machine" (or Xuong Machine) in 1975, an X-ray Multiwire Area Detector, which using Multi-wire Proportional Chambers and then Silicon detectors to help researchers map three-dimensional structure of receptor and allowed for high-speed data collection,[5] and can be used to find drugs to kill deadly viruses such as HIV (the AIDS virus), Polio, etc.[6]

His awards include Guggenheim Fellowship (1965–1966), NATO Senior Fellowship (1977), Fogerty Fellowship (Unable to accept, 1984), Union of Pacific Asian Communities Award (1985), UCSD Chancellor Associate Award (1992 [7]) and Charles E. Supper Instrumentation Award from American Crystallographic Association (2004).[8] He is also founder of Area Detector Systems Corporation [9]

He served as the President of the Vietnamese Alliance Association, 1976–1992 and was also co-founder and Ex-Chairman of "

Boat people) and they successfully sent out rescue ships on the South China Sea to pick up drifting boat people, saving more than 3,500.[10][11][12]

Selected Patents

Selected publications

  • Crystal Structure of a Transition State Mimic of the Catalytic Subunit of cAMP-dependent Protein Kinase. With Madhusudan, P. Akamine, and S. S. Taylor. Nature Struc. Biol. 9, 273 2002.
  • The Structures of Anthranilate Synthase of Serratia Marcescens Crystallized in the Presence of (i) its substrates, Chorismate and Glutamine, and a Product, Glutamate, and (ii) its End-product Inhibitor, L-tryptophan. With G. Spraggon, C. Kim, M. C. Yee, C. Yanofsky, and S. E. Mills. PNAS 98, 6021 2001.
  • Status of the Digital Pixel Array Detector for Protein Crystallography. With P. Datte, A. Birkbeck, E. Beuville, N. Enres, F. Druillole, L. Luo, and J. Millaud. Nuclear Instru. & Methods Phys. Res. A-421, 576 1999.
  • ASIC-Based Event-Driven 2D Digital Electron Counter for TEM Imaging. With G.Y. Fan, P. Datte, E. Beuville, J.-F. Beche, J. Millaud, K.H. Downing, F.T. Burkard, and M.H. Ellisman. Ultramicroscopy 70, 107 1998.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c Bio, Distinguished Asian Americans: a biographical dictionary - pp. 359-360
  2. ^ a b Bio at Carnergie Mellon University - Biotechnology Innovation and Computation Faculty and Advisors
  3. ^ a b c Bio at UCSD
  4. ^ Faculty Description of UC San Diego, Department of Physics
  5. NIH
  6. ^ "Xuong Machine" helps researchers map three-dimensional structure of receptor. Archived November 14, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, libraries.ucsd, November 28, 1990
  7. ^ Four UCSD faculty members honored for excellence by Chancellor's Associates
  8. ^ "American Crystallographic Association - Award Descriptions". www.amercrystalassn.org. Archived from the original on 2010-01-30.
  9. ^ Area Detector Systems Corporation Archived March 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ Jackie Bong-Wright, Vietnamese Refugees’ Journey to Freedom, asianfortunenews, 2009
  11. ^ RALPH FRAMMOLINO, Vietnamese Contributions : $40,000 Is Donated to Help Boat People, Los Angeles Times, April 02, 1986
  12. ^ DAVID SMOLLAR, How Two Educators Approach the Challenge of Vietnamese Issues : Physics Professor Finds the Time for Global Lobbying, LA Times, February 12, 1989
  13. ^ At Intellectual Property EXchange Limited

External links

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