James Penner-Hahn (born 27 August 1957) is the George A. Lindsay Collegiate Professor of Chemistry and Biophysics at the
University of Michigan. He completed a
Bachelor of Science degree with Honors at
Purdue University in 1979 and a
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at
Stanford University
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in 1984 under
Keith Hodgson; his dissertation was titled ''X-ray Absorption Studies of Metalloprotein Structure: Cytochrome P-450, Horseradish Peroxidase, Plastocyanin, and Laccase''. Penner-Hahn's research involves
biophysical chemistry
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and
inorganic spectroscopy including
EXAFS and
synchrotron
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radiation techniques which he helped to develop in his doctoral and post-doctoral work with
Edward Solomon and Hodgson. He was elected as a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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in 2004.
References
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Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Living people
21st-century American chemists
1957 births
University of Michigan faculty