Donald Van Slyke
Donald Dexter Van Slyke ( born March 29, 1883 in Pike ( New York); † May 4, 1971 ) was an American biochemist. He is in the United States as one of the founders of clinical chemistry.
Life
Van Slyke studied at the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree in 1905 and his doctorate in 1907 at Moses Gomberg. After that, he was at the Rockefeller Institute in Phoebus Levene and 1911 a year in Berlin under Emil Fischer. At that time, he dealt with the composition of proteins from amino acids and discovered the amino acid hydroxylysine. In 1914 he became chief chemist at the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute, where he was one of the founders of clinical chemistry. He inter alia, certain gas and electrolyte levels in tissues. By John P. Peters, he wrote the then standard work Quantitative Clinical Chemistry. 1914 to 1925 he was editor of the Journal of Biological Chemistry. In 1948 he became deputy director of the Biology and Medicine Division at Brookhaven National Laboratory and conducted research at Brookhaven until his death in 1971.
Rates and Memberships
He was nine honorary doctorates (including Oslo, Amsterdam, Ulm, Yale, London, Chicago) and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Writings
- With John P. Peters Quantitative Clinical Chemistry, 2 Volumes, Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins, 1931, 2nd edition 1946
- With John Plazin micromanometric Analyses, Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins 1961