Gordon Hammes

Gordon Hammes
Born	1934 Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
Nationality	United States
Fields	Biochemistry
Alma mater	Princeton University
Known for	Enzyme kinetics and mechanism
Notable awards	McKay Prize, ACS Award in Biological Chemistry

Gordon G. Hammes (born 1934 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin) is a Distinguished Service Professor of Biochemistry, Emeritus, at Duke University and member of United States National Academy of Sciences. Hammes's research involves the study of enzyme mechanisms and enzyme regulation.

Hammes was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin in 1934. He earned his B.A. from Princeton University in 1956 and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1959.

Hammes conducted postdoctoral research with Manfred Eigen at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Gottingen, Germany. He then secured a faculty position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before moving to Cornell University in 1965, where he was professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry. He spent some time at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and joined the biochemistry faculty at Duke University in 1991. He served as vice chancellor of academic affairs at the Duke University Medical Center from 1991 through 1998.

Hammes was editor-in-chief of the American Chemical Society journal Biochemistry from 1992 until 2003, and president of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology starting in 1994. The Gordon Hammes ACS Biochemistry Lectureship was established in 2009 in order to honor significant contributions to the field of biochemistry.