Henry Wheeler

September 14, 1867 - October 30, 1914


Scientific Discipline: Chemistry
Membership Type:
Member (elected 1909)

Henry Lord Wheeler was a pioneering organic chemist and biochemist. His research focused largely on pyrimidines and, with Treat B. Johnson, he developed the Wheeler-Johnson test for the presence of uracil and cytosine, an important step in the characterization of nucleic acids.

Wheeler attended the Sheffield Scientific School, part of Yale University, graduating in 1890 and earning a PhD in 1893. After a year of study in Munich and a year at the University of Chicago he returned to Yale, where he taught until his retirement in 1911. He was a founding editor of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

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