Elkan Blout
- December 20, 2006
- 87 years
- pneumonia
About Elkan Blout
Elkan Blout, 87, American biochemist (Harvard University and the Polaroid Corporation), pneumonia.
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|Elkan Rogers Blout (July 2, 1919 – December 20, 2006) was a biochemist at Polaroid Corporation, Boston Children's Hospital, and the Edward S. Harkness Professor of Biological Chemistry, emeritus at Harvard University.
Blout completed a BA at Princeton University (chemistry) in 1939, followed by a PhD at Columbia University in 1942.
Blout was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1969. In 1990, he was awarded the National Medal of Science "for his pioneering studies of protein conformation and devotion to the scientific enterprise of the Nation".
Blout died in December 2006, in Boston.
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