Oliver H. Lowry

Oliver Howe Lowry ( born July 18, 1910 in Chicago, † June 29, 1996 in St. Louis) was an American molecular biologist. Lowry developed quantitative methods for measuring tiny amounts of substances in the cellular and subcellular area, such as a scale for individual, only millionths of a gram cell components, and is named after the protein determination according to Lowry.

Life

Lowry studied at Northwestern University ( Evanston ) first chemical engineering, biochemistry then. After the Bachelor, he moved in 1932 to the University of Chicago, where he received his doctorate in 1937 in Biochemistry ( Ph.D. ) and medicine ( MD). After teaching and research activities at Harvard and New York in 1947, he took over the Chair of Pharmacology, Washington University, a position he held until 1976. 1955-1958 he was dean of the medical faculty. He retired in 1979.

Oliver Lowry was married twice and has five children.

Work

His work Protein measurement with the folin phenol reagent ( 1951 ), which grew out of research at the Public Health Research Institute in New York, is considered the most cited scientific study of the world. Lowry has received numerous scientific awards. In 1957 he was appointed to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 1964 the National Academy of Sciences, 1968, the Danish Academy of Sciences.

Swell

• Oliver H. Lowry, 85, an Expert In Precise Measuring Biological. The New York Times, July 4, 1996
• Oliver Lowry what renowned biochemist. Obituary of Washington University, 1996
• Kresge N, et al.: The Most Highly Cited Paper in Publishing History: Protein Determination by Oliver H. Lowry. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2005 (280): e25