Charles Tanford was a German-born protein biochemist.
13 Facts About Charles Tanford
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Charles Tanford died in York, England, on October 1,2009.
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Charles Tanford was born in Halle, Germany in 1921 to Majer and Charlotte Tannenbaum.
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At the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939, Tanford was sent to New York to live with relatives.
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Charles Tanford is credited with contributing to the "Tanford-Pease Theory of burning velocity".
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Charles Tanford was hired as an assistant professor by the University of Iowa, where, in 1954, he was then promoted to associate professor and, again, in 1959, to full professor.
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In 1960, Charles Tanford joined the faculty at Duke University as a professor of biochemistry.
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Charles Tanford moved to the Department of Physiology in 1980, where his research efforts were concentrated on the movement of ions across cell membranes together with his collaborators Dr E A Johnson and Dr Jacqueline Reynolds.
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In 1973 Charles Tanford published The Hydrophobic Effect, which covered proteins in all their various guises including those within cell membranes.
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Charles Tanford gave great credit to the giants upon whose shoulders he stood.
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Charles Tanford published important work on protein hydration and on the viscosity of solutions of proteins.
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In 1981, Charles Tanford became a founding member of the World Cultural Council.
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Charles Tanford was awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim and Alexander von Humboldt Foundations.