John Keith Moffat
American biophysicist (1943-)
John 'Keith' Moffat (born 1943) is Louis Block Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and former Deputy Provost for Research at the University of Chicago. He currently heads BioCARS at Argonne National Laboratory, where he worked on the Advanced Photon Source. He is most noted for his contributions to Time resolved crystallography. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow and former Cornell University faculty member. He has a Ph.D. from King's College, Cambridge under the Nobel laureate Max Perutz at MRC-LMB and an undergraduate degree from the University of Edinburgh. He is married with an adopted son.
Selected publications
Srajer, V.; Teng, T.-y.; Ursby, T.; Pradervand, C.; Ren, Z.; Adachi, S.-i.; Schildkamp, W.; Bourgeois, D.; Wulff, M.; Moffat, K. (1996). "Photolysis of the Carbon Monoxide Complex of Myoglobin: Nanosecond Time-Resolved Crystallography". Science. 274 (5293): 1726–9.
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