Russell Doolittle

Russell F. Doolittle ( born January 10, 1931 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American biochemist.

Doolittle studied biology at Wesleyan University ( BA 1952) and made 1957 a master's degree in education at Trinity College in Hartford. In 1962 he was at Harvard University in Biochemistry PhD ( while he was instructor in biology at Amherst College ) and was then as a post-doctoral fellow of the National Heart Institute. From 1964 he was at the University of California, San Diego, first as a researcher in 1969 as an assistant professor and from 1972 as a professor of biochemistry.

Doolittle known for The molecular evolution of proteins (including the blood system ) and the structure of fibrinogen.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1984 ) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1985). In 1989 he was awarded the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize. In 2006 he received the John J. Carty Award from the National Academy of Sciences. 1984/85 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. In 1992 he received the stone & Moose Award and the 1969 Career Development Award from the U.S. Public Health Service.

He has been married since 1955 and has two children.

Writings

• Of URF and orfs: A primer on how to Analyze Derived Amino Acid, University Science Books, December 1986
• With John N. Abelson, Melvin I. Simon, Computer Methods for Macromolecular Sequence Analysis (Methods in Enzymology ), Academic Press, 1996
• With John N. Abelson, Melvin I. Simon Molecular Evolution: Computer Analysis of Protein and Nucleic Acid Sequences (Methods in Enzymology ), Academic Press, 1990
• Editor Michael W. Mosesson, Molecular biology of fibrinogen and fibrin, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1983