biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1901–95)
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| biography:
| Molecular biologist, born in West Newton, Massachusetts, USA. The grandson of Harvard anatomist and zoologist Jeffries Wyman (1814–74), he taught and performed research at Harvard (1928–51), became a scientific adviser to the US Embassy, Paris (1951–4), then directed UNESCO's Middle East Science Office (1955–9). He relocated to the Regina Elena Institute in Rome (1960–84), where he remained active in research and scientific writing. He made major contributions to studies of allosteric enzymes and haemoglobin, and published extensively in scientific journals on the relationship of thermodynamics and electrostatics to biology. |
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