Mahlon Hoagland

Mahlon Bush Hoagland ( born October 5, 1921 in Boston, Massachusetts, † 18 September 2009 in Thetford, Vermont) was an American biochemist, molecular biologist and university lecturer.

Biography

After schooling Hoagland studied medicine at Harvard University and was a visiting researcher connect at Copenhagen University and the University of Cambridge. After his return to the U.S. he was in 1952, researchers in the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Harvard Medical School.

In 1967 he accepted an appointment as professor of biochemistry at Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire ) and taught there until 1985. At the same time he was a Research 1970-1985 Director of the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology.

While working as a researcher and university teacher, he has focused particularly on the causes of cancer, liver regeneration, and growth control. However, his most important scientific contribution was his confirmation that is identified by a ribonucleic acid transcription in protein synthesis, the support for each amino acid. He also described the role of amino acids in protein synthesis and the formation of ester compounds. Thus he created fundamental findings in DNA research.

For him his findings in 1976 Benjamin Franklin medal was awarded.