Joseph Fruton
Joseph Fruton · Science & Medicine
Biochemist known for work on enzymes, peptides and the history of biochemistry
1912, Częstochowa, Poland — 2007, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Poland · United States
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Joseph Stewart Fruton, born Joseph Fruchtgarten, was a Polish-American biochemist at Yale known for his work on synthetic peptides and the specificity of proteolytic enzymes. With his wife Sofia Simmonds he wrote the influential textbook 'General Biochemistry', and in later life he became a distinguished historian of biochemistry. He was born into a Polish-Jewish family that emigrated to New York.
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Biochemist known for work on enzymes, peptides and the history of biochemistry
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