Harold Scheraga
Harold Scheraga · Science & Medicine
Physical chemist known for protein folding and structure
1921, Brooklyn, New York, United States — 2020, Ithaca, New York, United States
United States
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Harold Scheraga was an American physical chemist at Cornell University and a pioneer of computational studies of protein structure and folding, whose work on the energetics of polypeptide chains helped launch the field of molecular biophysics. Over a career spanning seven decades he trained many leading scientists. Scheraga was born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn.
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Physical chemist known for protein folding and structure
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