Wallace L. McKeehan Chemical Family History
275 Years of Discovery & Mentorship

Carl Linnaeus University of Harderwijk, 1735 Plant biotechnology; father of biological classification (taxonomy) >>> Torbern Bergman Uppsala University, 1758 Father of quantitative chemical analysis; carbon dioxide chemistry; first carbonated water Papers at U. Illinois >>> Johann Afzelius Uppsala University, 1784 Isolated formic acid; chemistry of nickel >>> Jöns Jacob Berzelius Stockholm University, 1802 "Father of modern chemistry, chemical formulas for reactions; discovered silicon, selenium, thorium, cerium, lithium, vanadium; coined the term "protein" >>> Friedrich Wöhler Heidelberg University, 1823 Characterized, synthesized urea; discovered/isolated beryllium, silicon; isolated yttrium, titanium; isomerism and free radicals >>> Charles Chandler Gottingen University, 1856 First environmental health chemist; founded American Chemical Society >>> Albert F. Mathews Columbia University, 1898 Chemical basis of nerve excitation >>> Frederick C. Koch University of Chicago, 1912 Discoverer of male sex hormone testosterone Gallagher & Koch (1929) The Testicular Hormone, J. Biol. Chem. 84:495 >>> Roger J. Williams University of Chicago, 1919 Discovered pantothenic acid; isolated and characterized folic acid; pioneered nutritional education Founder, The Clayton Foundation Biochemical Institute, UT-Austin >>> Herschel Mitchell University of Texas, 1941 Biochemistry of fruit flies & development; heat shock >>> Boyd Hardesty California Institute of Technology, 1961 Mechanism of protein synthesis on ribosomes >>> Wallace L. McKeehan University of Texas, 1970 Distiguished & Regents Professor Emeritus IBT-Texas A&M University Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX >>> Patricia Fritz (MS) SUNY-Plattsburgh, 1979 Jinzhao (Jay) Hou, Clarkson U., 1992 Research Scientist Skyline Therapeutics, Shanghai, PRC Guochen (Gordon) Yan, Clarkson U., 1992 Cofounder & CEO Biovision, Inc. & AbVision Therapeutics San Jose, CA Ergang Shi (deceased 2022) Clarkson U., 1993 Associate Director High Throughput Screening Center (HTSC) Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, NY Jianming Xu, Clarkson U., 1994 Professor Dept. Molecular & Cellular Biology Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX Fen Wang, Clarkson U., 1994 Professor IBT-Texas A&M Health Science Center Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX Shuju Feng, Kunming Inst. Zoology, 1994 Assistant Professor Pulmonary Medicine, MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX Jun-Hyeog Jang, Texas A&M, 1997 Professor Dept. of Cancer Biology Inha University College of Medicine Incheon, Korea Weiqin Lu (MS), U. Texas-Houston, 1999 Associate Professor Department of Medicine Stony Brook University School of Medicine Stony Brook, NY Richard Jones, Texas A&M, 2000 Global Vice President, In Vitro Diagnostics Phillips-Medi-Size Hudson, MN Xiaochong Wu (MS), U. Texas-Houston, 2002 Associate Professor Texas Childrens Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX Chundong Yu, U. Texas-Houston, 2002 Professor State Key Laboratory Cellular Stress Biology Xiamen University, Xiamen, PRC Yongde Luo, Texas A&M, 2005 Professor School of Pharmaceutical Science, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, PRC Tijuana N. Moss (MS), Texas A&M, 2006 Research Associate Meso Scale Diagnostics Rockville, MD Xinqiang Huang, Texas A&M, 2006 Associate Director Morphic Therapeutics, Waltham, MA Dongdong Cao (MS), Texas A&M, 2007 ASCP Pathologists' Assistant St. Alexius Medical Center Bismarck, SD Rui Xie, Texas A&M 2010 Chaofeng Yang, Texas A&M 2010 Instructor Division of Endocrinology UT-Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX Junchen Liu, Texas A&M Assistant Professor Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, McGovern Medical School, UTHealth, Houston, TX [Last known positions indicated] [Page updated 04/03/2024]

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