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Robert A. Alberty

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Robert A. Alberty
Rayuwa
HaihuwaWinfield (en) Fassara, 21 ga Yuni, 1921
ƙasaTarayyar Amurka
MutuwaCambridge, 18 ga Janairu, 2014
Karatu
MakarantaUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison (en) Fassara
University of Nebraska–Lincoln (en) Fassara
Thesis directorJohn Warren Williams (mul) Fassara
Dalibin daktanciCarl Frieden (mul) Fassara
HarsunaTuranci
Sana'a
Sana'achemist (en) Fassara da university teacher (en) Fassara
EmployersUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison (en) Fassara
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (en) Fassara
Kyaututtuka
MambaNational Academy of Sciences (en) Fassara
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (en) Fassara

Robert Arnold Alberty (1921–2014) ƙwararren masanin kimiyyar sinadarai ne na Amurka, farfesa mai ritaya a Cibiyar Fasaha ta Massachusetts, kuma memba na Kwalejin Kimiyya ta Ƙasa .

Alberty ya sami digirin farko da na biyu daga Jami'ar Nebraska a shekarar 1943 da 1944, bi da bi, sannan ya sami digirin digirgir daga Jami'ar Wisconsin–Madison a shekarar 1947. Saboda aikinsa a fannin kimiyyar sinadarai masu rai, an zaɓe Alberty zuwa Kwalejin Kimiyya ta Ƙasa a shekarar 1965. A shekarar 1968 an zaɓe shi a matsayin Fellow na Kwalejin Fasaha da Kimiyya ta Amurka . [1] Ya kasance shugaban Makarantar Kimiyya ta MIT tsakanin 1967-1982.

Alberty kuma sananne ne saboda litattafansa kan ilmin sunadarai na zahiri, waɗanda suka yi fice a bugu da yawa. Na farko, Physical Chemistry, tare da Farrington Daniels, an buga shi a shekarar 1957. An yi wa littattafan kwanan nan masu wannan taken tare da Robert J. Silbey da Moungi G. Bawendi (2004). Sauran ayyukan sun haɗa da Thermodynamics of Biochemical Reactions (2003) da Biochemical Thermodynamics: Applications of Mathematica (Methods of Biochemical Analysis) (2006).

Ya rasu a Cambridge, Massachusetts, yana da shekaru 92 a ranar 18 ga Janairu, 2014. A ƙarshen rayuwarsa, ya rubuta ɗan gajeren bayani game da rayuwarsa da aikinsa na kimiyya. [2]

A farkon aikinsa, Alberty ya yi aiki musamman kan fannoni na electrophoresis a fannin sunadarai na furotin . [3] Bayan shekaru 20 daga binciken ilimi, lokacin da yake da alhakin gudanarwa a MIT, tare da aiki a masana'antar mai, [2] ya koma binciken sinadarai na halitta.

Ya ƙara damuwa da tsarin motsi da hanyoyin halayen enzyme-catalysed, [4] [5] da farko yana nazarin fumarase musamman. [5] Yana cikin waɗanda suka fara la'akari da tsarin motsi na halayen tare da substrate fiye da ɗaya, [6] kuma a cikin shekarun da suka biyo baya babu wani ɓangare na tsarin motsi na enzyme da bai taɓa ba, aikinsa ya haɗa da, misali, nazarin pH, [7] daidaitattun ƙimar da aka haɗa, [8] halayen da za a iya juyawa, [8] tasirin zafin jiki, [9] tasirin masu hanawa da masu hanawa, [10] da sauransu.

Sha'awar farko ta Alberty game da ionization na adenosine phosphate da kuma fannoni na thermodynamic na halayen sinadarai ta zama babban abin da ya fi sha'awarsa, kuma a shekarunsa na ƙarshe ya sami wallafe-wallafe da yawa kan wannan batu, kamar tattara halayen ATP da mahaɗan da suka shafi hakan. Ya yi aiki tare da IUPAC kan shawarwari don gabatar da bayanai don thermodynamics na sinadarai.

Duk da cewa ya fi damuwa da halayen da aka samar da enzyme guda ɗaya, Alberty ya kuma yi wasu ayyuka tare da tsarin enzyme fiye da ɗaya, kamar zagayowar urea. [11]

Kenneth Burton

  1. ↑ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
  2. 1 2 Alberty, Robert A. (2010). "Brief Scientific Autobiography of Robert A. Alberty". The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 114 (49): 16047–16050. doi:10.1021/jp103554e. PMID 21141926. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "autob" defined multiple times with different content.
  3. ↑ Robert Alberty, professor emeritus of chemistry and former dean of science, dies at 92
  4. ↑ Robert Alberty, professor emeritus of chemistry and former dean of science, dies at 92
  5. 1 2 Bock, Robert M.; Alberty, Robert A. (1953). "Studies of the Enzyme Fumarase. I. Kinetics and Equilibrium". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 75 (8): 1921–1925. Bibcode:1953JAChS..75.1921B. doi:10.1021/ja01104a043.
  6. ↑ Robert Alberty, professor emeritus of chemistry and former dean of science, dies at 92
  7. ↑ Alberty, Robert A.; Massey, Vincent (1954). "On the interpretation of the pH variation of the maximum initial velocity of an enzyme-catalyzed reaction". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. 13 (3): 347–353. doi:10.1016/0006-3002(54)90340-6. PMID 13140346.
  8. 1 2 Alberty, Robert A.; Koerber, Barbara M. (1957). "Studies of the Enzyme Fumarase. VII.1 Series Solutions of Integrated Rate Equations for Irreversible and Reversible Michaelis-Menten Mechanisms2". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 79 (24): 6379–6382. Bibcode:1957JAChS..79.6379A. doi:10.1021/ja01581a011.
  9. ↑ Brant, David A.; Barnett, Lewis B.; Alberty, Robert A. (1963). "The Temperature Dependence of the Steady State Kinetic Parameters of the Fumarase Reaction". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 85 (15): 2204–2209. Bibcode:1963JAChS..85.2204B. doi:10.1021/ja00898a003.
  10. ↑ Alberty, R. A.; Bock, R. M. (1953). "Alteration of the Kinetic Properties of an Enzyme by the Binding of Buffer, Inhibitor, or Substrate". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 39 (9): 895–900. Bibcode:1953PNAS...39..895A. doi:10.1073/pnas.39.9.895. PMC 1063877. PMID 16589350.
  11. ↑ Robert Alberty, professor emeritus of chemistry and former dean of science, dies at 92