Donald Herman Voet (born November 29, 1938) is an emeritus associate professor of chemistry at the

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. His laboratory uses

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to understand structure-function relationships in proteins. He and his wife, Judith G. Voet, are authors of biochemistry text books that are widely used in undergraduate and graduate curricula.

Education

Voet earned his B.S. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1960 and his Ph.D. in chemistry from

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with William N. Lipscomb, Jr. in 1967.

Career

He completed his postdoctoral research at the

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in 1969 in the laboratory of

Alexander Rich Alexander Rich (15 November 1924 – 27 April 2015) was an American biologist and biophysicist. He was the William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics at MIT (since 1958) and Harvard Medical School. Rich earned an A.B. (''magna cum laud ...

. He later became a professor in the chemistry department at the University of Pennsylvania. Voet and his wife are coeditors-in-chief of the journal ''Biochemical and Molecular Biology Education''.

Notable publications

*Voet, D; Voet, J.G.; and Pratt, C.W., ''Fundamentals of Biochemistry, Life at the molecular level'' (4th ed.), John Wiley & Sons (2013) * Voet, D. and Voet, J, G., ''Biochemistry'' (4th ed.), John Wiley & Sons Inc.: Hoboken, NJ (2011) * Voet, D; Voet, J.G.; and Pratt, C.W., ''Fundamentals of Biochemistry'' (3rd ed.), John Wiley & Sons (2008) *Uzman, A.; Eichberg, J.; Widger, W.; Cornely, K.; Voet, D.; Voet,J.G.; and Pratt, C.W.; ''Student Companion to Accompany Fundamentals of Biochemistry'' (2nd ed.), John Wiley & Sons (2006) *Voet, D; Voet, J.G.; and Pratt, C.W.; ''Fundamentals of Biochemistry'' (2nd ed.), John Wiley & Sons (2006) *Voet, D. and Voet, J. G., ''Solutions Manual to Accompany Biochemistry'' (3rd ed.), John Wiley & Sons (2004) *Voet, D. and Voet, J. G., ''Biochemistry'' (3rd ed.), John Wiley & Sons (2004)

References

Living people American biochemists California Institute of Technology alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni University of Pennsylvania faculty American textbook writers American male non-fiction writers 1938 births {{US-scientist-stub