Gary Keith Ackers (1939 - 2011) was Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics of

Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis (WashU or WUSTL) is a private research university with its main campus in St. Louis County, and Clayton, Missouri. Founded in 1853, the university is named after George Washington. Washington University is r ...

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. His research focused on thermodynamic linkage analysis of biological macromolecules, addressing the molecular mechanism of cooperative O₂ binding to human

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since the early 1970s. He was a Fellow of the Biophysical Society and one of the founders of the annual Gibbs Conference.Gary Ackers
faculty page at Washington University in St. Louis. Accessed on 2010-02-01. Professor Ackers invented agarose gel chromatography when he was a teenager. He went on the develop analytical gel chromatography methods for determinations of many important characteristics of water-soluble proteins; diffusion coefficient, molecular size, thermodynamics of protein-protein interactions including important changes due to single amino acid substitutions.

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