Summary
Robert Martin Glaeser (born July 20, 1937, in Kenosha, Wisconsin) is an American biochemist. He is a professor emeritus of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology at the University of California, Berkeley and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in Berkeley, California, US. His main research area is electron diffraction and membrane models.
Robert Martin Glaeser | |
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| Born | July 20, 1937 Kenosha, Wisconsin (USA) |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley University of Wisconsin – Madison |
| Known for | development of cryo-EM |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Website | http://mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/all/glaeserr |
Glaeser is known[1] for his pioneering work in cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM), where he established how radiation damage was a limiting factor for imaging resolution[2] and how freezing hydrated specimens allowed for more tolerance to radiation damage.[3] He also pushed electron imaging microscopy resolution and contrast by studying the effect of beam-induced movement on the resolution[4] and developed methods for weak-phase imaging.[5]
Glaeser studied at the University of Wisconsin – Madison (B.A. 1959) and the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. 1964). He was then a postdoc at the University of Oxford (1963/64) and University of Chicago (1964/65). In 1988/89 he was a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry (MPIB) in Martinsried near Munich, and later a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Awards edit
- 2021: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Lifetime Achievement award[6]
- 2018: Glenn T. Seaborg Medal[7]
- 2016: member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences[8]
- 1983: Guggenheim Fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
References edit
- ^ Lifetime Achievement Awardee – Robert Martin Glaeser – Berkeley Lab
- ^ Glaeser, Robert M. (1971). "Limitations to Significant Information in Biological Electron Microscopy as a Result of Radiation Damage". Journal of Ultrastructure Research. 36 (3–4): 466–482. doi:10.1016/S0022-5320(71)80118-1. PMID 5107051.
- ^ Glaeser, Robert M.; Taylor, Kenneth A. (1978). "Radiation-Damage Relative to Transmission Electron-Microscopy of Biological Specimens at Low-Temperature". Journal of Microscopy. 112 (1): 127–138. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2818.1978.tb01160.x. PMID 347079. S2CID 45670974.
- ^ Henderson, Richard; Glaeser, Robert M. (1985). "Quantitative analysis of image contrast in electron micrographs of beam-sensitive crystals". Ultramicroscopy. 16 (2): 139–150. doi:10.1016/0304-3991(85)90069-5.
- ^ Glaeser, R. M. (2013). "Methods for imaging weak-phase objects in electron microscopy". The Review of Scientific Instruments. 84 (11): 111101. doi:10.1063/1.4830355. PMC 3855062. PMID 24289381.
- ^ Berkeley Lab Director’s Awards for Lifetime Achievement
- ^ 2018 medalists – Glenn T. Seaborg Medal
- ^ Robert Glaeser – National Academy of Science