Clinton Edward Ballou (June 18, 1923 – March 8, 2021) was an American academic who was a professor of
biochemistry at the
University of California, Berkeley. His research focused on the
metabolism of
carbohydrates and the structures of
microbial
A microorganism, or microbe,, ''mikros'', "small") and ''organism'' from the el, ὀργανισμός, ''organismós'', "organism"). It is usually written as a single word but is sometimes hyphenated (''micro-organism''), especially in olde ...
cell wall
A cell wall is a structural layer surrounding some types of cells, just outside the cell membrane. It can be tough, flexible, and sometimes rigid. It provides the cell with both structural support and protection, and also acts as a filtering mech ...
s. He joined the
United States National Academy of Sciences in 1975.
Ballou was born in
King Hill, Idaho
King Hill is an unincorporated community in Elmore County, Idaho, United States. King Hill is located on the Snake River northeast of Glenns Ferry. King Hill has a post office
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in June 1923, to William Clinton Ballou and "Mollie" Ballou. He attended
Boise Junior College
Boise State University (BSU) is a public research university in Boise, Idaho. Founded in 1932 by the Episcopal Church, it became an independent junior college in 1934 and has been awarding baccalaureate and master's degrees It became a publ ...
, and graduated from
Oregon State College, and the
University of Wisconsin. He served in the U. S. Navy from 1944 to 1946.
He held a postdoctoral fellowship with
E. L. Hirst in Chemistry at the
University of Edinburgh. Ballou became a professor of biochemistry at the
University of California, Berkeley in 1955, and became a professor emeritus in 1991.
Ballou served on the editorial board of the ''Journal of Biological Chemistry''. He died in March 2021 at the age of 97.
In Memoriam: Clinton Edward Ballou (1923–2021)
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Awards
* 1975 National Academy of Sciences
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* 1981 American Chemical Society's Claude Hudson Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry
* 1972 Welch Foundation Lectureship
* 1976 University of Notre Dame Reilly Lectureship
* 1977 Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
Belfort Lectureship
* 1961 National Science Foundation Senior Fellowship
References
External links
Clinton Ballou on the University of California, Berkeley website
1923 births
2021 deaths
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
American biochemists
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
People from Elmore County, Idaho
University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
United States Navy personnel of World War II
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