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Eugene P. Kennedy by Howard Schulman
“Eugene Patrick Kennedy, Hamilton Kuhn Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Emeritus at the Harvard Medical School, was one of the giants of twentieth century biochemistry, renowned for his groundbreaking work on phospholipid biosynthesis and membrane function. His research helped shift biochemical leadership from pre-World War II Europe to the United States in the years after the war. His distinguished career spanned from the start of his Ph.D. research in 1947 at the University of Chicago to the closure of his lab in 1993.”
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Published since 1877, Biographical Memoirs provide the life histories and selected bibliographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members. Colleagues familiar with the subject’s work write these memoirs and as such, the series provides a biographical history of science in America.
The Online Collection includes approximately 1,900 memoirs, including those of famed naturalist Louis Agassiz; Joseph Henry, the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Thomas Edison; Alexander Graham Bell; noted anthropologist Margaret Mead; and psychologist and philosopher John Dewey.
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