Harland G. Wood
Harland G. Wood | |
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Born | Harland Goff Wood September 2, 1907 |
Died | September 12, 1991 Cleveland, Ohio | (aged 84)
Education | Macalester College, Iowa State University |
Known for | Fixation of CO2 by animals and bacteria |
Spouse | Mildred Davis |
Children | Two daughters |
Awards | National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Eli Lilly and Company-Elanco Research Award, Rosenstiel Award, National Medal of Science |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biochemistry |
Institutions | Iowa State University, University of Minnesota, Western Reserve University (later Case Western Reserve University) |
Harland Goff Wood (September 2, 1907 – September 12, 1991) was an American biochemist notable for proving in 1935 that animals, humans and bacteria fixed carbon from carbon dioxide in the metabolic pathway to succinate. (Previously CO2 fixation had been thought to occur only in plants and a few unusual autotrophic bacteria.)
Awards and honours
Wood was a recipient of the National Medal of Science. He was on the President's Science Advisory Committee under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon. He was also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Biochemical Society of Japan. He was also first director of the department of biochemistry at the School of Medicine and dean of sciences, Case Western Reserve University.
Chronology
- 1907: born in Delavan, MN, to Inez Goff and William Clark Wood
- 1931: B.A. Macalester College
- 1935: Ph.D. Iowa State University
- 1936-1943: taught Bacteriology at Iowa State University
- 1943-1946: taught Physiology at the University of Minnesota
- 1946-67: director of the Department of Biochemistry at the School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
- 1907 births
- 1991 deaths
- Macalester College alumni
- University of Minnesota faculty
- Case Western Reserve University faculty
- Princeton University faculty
- 20th-century American biochemists
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- National Medal of Science laureates
- Presidents of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology