Frank Westheimer
Frank Westheimer · Science & Medicine
Chemist known for physical organic and bioorganic chemistry
1912, Baltimore, Maryland, United States — 2007, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
United States
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Frank Westheimer was a chemist at Harvard whose work founded much of physical organic and bioorganic chemistry, including landmark studies of enzyme mechanisms and the famous 1987 essay explaining 'Why Nature Chose Phosphates.' His analyses of reaction mechanisms shaped modern biochemistry. He was Jewish.
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Chemist known for physical organic and bioorganic chemistry
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
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