Roger W. Jeanloz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Roger W. Jeanloz

Swiss-American biochemist

Date of Birth: 03-Nov-1917

Place of Birth: Bern, canton of Bern, Switzerland

Date of Death: 28-Sep-2007

Profession: biochemist

Nationality: United States, Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Roger W. Jeanloz

  • Roger William Jeanloz (3 November 1917 – 28 September 2007) was a Swiss-American biochemist. Jeanloz was born in Bern on 3 November 1917, and grew up in Geneva.
  • His father was of Swiss German descent, and his mother had French ancestry.
  • Jeanloz attended Collège Calvin, where he pursued Greek and Latin classical studies, graduating with a bachelor's of science in 1936.
  • Five years later, Jeanloz completed a diploma in chemical engineering from the University of Geneva, specializing in organic chemistry and biochemistry.
  • In 1943, Jeanloz obtained a D.Sc under the direction of Kurt Heinrich Meyer.
  • Jeanloz worked for Tadeusz Reichstein from 1944 to 1946, when he moved his postdoctoral research overseas, with a year each at the University of Montreal in Canada and National Institutes of Health in the United States.
  • After a three-year stint at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, during which he also taught at Tufts Medical School, Jeanloz joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School in 1951, while accepting a concurrent position at Massachusetts General Hospital.
  • In 1961, Jeanloz was named head of the Laboratory for Carbohydrate Research at Mass General, and an undergraduate adviser at Harvard College.
  • He was a cofounding regional editor of the journal Carbohydrate Research, which published its first issue in 1965.
  • Harvard Medical School appointed Jeanloz a professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology in 1969, and granted him emeritus status in 1988.
  • He remained an adviser and tutor at Harvard College until 2007.Over the course of his career, Jeanloz was honored with the Claude S.
  • Hudson Award by the American Chemical Society, a Humboldt Research Award, and a Guggenheim fellowship.
  • He died of pneumonia on 28 September 2007, while on vacation in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France.
  • Jeanloz was married to Dorothea, with whom he had four children: sons Claude and Raymond, and daughters Danielle and Sylvie.

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