Judith Klinman | |
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Residence | California, United States |
Nationality | American |
Fields | Biochemistry |
Institutions | University of California at Berkeley |
Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
Notable awards | National Medal of Science (2012) |
Judith P. Klinman is an American chemist known for her work on enzyme catalysis. She earned her A.B. from University of Pennsylvania in 1962 and Ph.D. from the same university in 1966. She became the first female faculty member in the chemistry department in University of California, Berkeley. Her group has discovered that room temperature nuclear tunneling occurs among various enzymatic reactions, and clarified the dynamics of tunneling process through data analysis. They have also discovered the quino-enzymes.