- George Feher
George Feher (1924) is an American
biophysicist working at theUniversity of California, San Diego [ [http://www-physics.ucsd.edu/~raifeher/ Feher & Okamura Biophysics Lab] ] .Birth and education
George Feher was born in
Czechoslovakia in 1924. He received his bachelor’s degree, master’s degree and doctorate fromUC-Berkeley .Academic career
After completing his PhD, he worked as a physicist at
Bell Laboratories andColumbia University . In 1960, he became a professor of Physics atUniversity of California, San Diego . Since then, he has been a professor at UCSD.Research
His main research was to uncovered the basic mechanisms for how plants and bacteria use photosynthesis to convert light into chemical energy. His contributions to science are the development of spectroscopic tools and their applications, in particular, to problems in biochemistry and biophysics.
Wolf Prize
In 2006/07, he was awarded the
Wolf Prize in Chemistry along withAda Yonath ofWeizmann Institute of Science inRehovot ,Israel for "ingenious structural discoveries of the ribosomal machinery of peptide-bond formation and the light-driven primary processes in photosynthesis" [ [http://www.wolffund.org.il/cat.asp?id=15&cat_title=CHEMISTRY The Wolf Prize in Chemistry] ] .References
External links
* [http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/wolfprize07.asp UC San Diego Professor Wins Wolf Prize in Chemistry]
* [http://www.wolffund.org.il/full.asp?id=153 The Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 2006/07]
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