Sung-Hou Kim

Kim Sung-Hou
Born	1937 (age 79–80) Korea
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Seoul National University (B.S., 1960) (M.S., 1962) University of Pittsburgh (Ph.D, 1966)
Occupation	Structural biologist and biophysicist
Awards	Fulbright Fellowship (1962) Guggenheim Fellowship (1985) Ernest O. Lawrence Award (1987) Princess Takamatsu Award (1989) Ho-am Prize (1994)

Korean name
Hangul	김성호
Hanja	金聖浩
Revised Romanization	Gim Seongho
McCune–Reischauer	Kim Sǒngho

Kim Sung-Hou Ph.D. (born 1937) is a Korean-born American structural biologist and biophysicist. Kim reported the first 3D structure of tRNA with A. Rich in 1973. He also published many papers on the structures of protein molecules including human Ras, human cyclin dependent kinase 2 and small heat shock protein. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Science and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1994. He is currently a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the U.C. Berkeley and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL).

Kim Sung-Hou was born in 1937 in Korea. He obtained his B.S. (1960) and M.S. (1962) in chemistry from Seoul National University, South Korea, and his PhD in 1966 from the University of Pittsburgh. From 1966 to 1970 he was a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Alexander Rich, and a senior research scientist there from 1970 to 1972, also with Dr. Rich.

From 1972 to 1978, he served as assistant and associate professor at the Department of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine, and as Professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, from 1978 to present.