John Keith Moffat | |
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Born | 1943 |
Residence | Chicago |
Other names | Keith Moffat |
Occupation | Professor; former Deputy Provost |
Employer | University of Chicago |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biophysics |
Institutions |
University of Chicago Cornell University |
Alma mater |
University of Edinburgh King's College, Cambridge |
Doctoral advisor | Max Perutz |
Other academic advisors | Quentin Gibson |
Notable students | Werner G. Krebs |
Known for | Time resolved crystallography |
Notable awards | Guggenheim Fellowship |
Website biophysics |
John 'Keith' Moffat (born 1943) is Louis Block Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology and former Deputy Provost for Research at the University of Chicago. He currently heads BioCARS at Argonne National Laboratory, where he worked on the Advanced Photon Source. He is most noted for his contributions to Time resolved crystallography. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow and former Cornell University faculty member. He has a Ph.D. from King's College, Cambridge under the Nobel laureate Max Perutz at MRC-LMB and an undergraduate degree from the University of Edinburgh. He is married with an adopted son.