Stephen Kent (chemist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Stephen Kent (chemist)

American chemist

Date of Birth: 12-Dec-1945

Place of Birth: Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Profession: chemist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Stephen B.
H.
Kent (December 12, 1945 in Wellington, New Zealand) is a chemistry professor at the University of Chicago and while professor at the Scripps Research Institute in the early 1990s was the inventor of native chemical ligation along with his student Philip Dawson .
He also demonstrated the principle that mirror-image amino acids put together to form a protein create a mirror-image protein which, if an enzyme, can catalyze the mirror-image reaction.
At the University of Chicago he and his junior colleagues pioneered the study of proteins by racemic crystallography.