期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：2021
卷号：118
期号：8
页码：1
DOI：10.1073/pnas.2026796118
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Harold Abraham Scheraga, an eminent Professor of chemistry and biophysics at Cornell University for 73 years, died on August 1, 2020 at the age of 98. Scheraga (known to his colleagues as Harold) has been a pioneer in the general field of macromolecules (polymers, proteins, DNA, and so forth). He started his own research in 1947 (when proteins were viewed just as ellipsoids of colloidal assemblies of amino acids), contributing vigorously to the progress in this field until his death. Unlike most scientists, his studies encompassed both experimental and theoretical–computational disciplines. He targeted this wide research area together with more than 400 researchers he trained as students, postdoctorates, and research associates, leading to an enormous output of around 1,400 papers. This exceptional activity is also reflected by the more than 50 honors Harold received from universities and companies around the world. He became an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1966), an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences (1966), and the American Advancement of Art and Sciences (1967). Harold A. Scheraga. Image credit: Cornell University, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND. Harold Scheraga as a young professor at Cornell University. Image credit: Cornell University, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND. Harold was a highly popular lecturer around the globe, and served on national and international committees, scientific advisory boards, and editorial boards of a large number of scientific journals. While his 2014 curriculum vitae includes a list of 85 such activities, we would like to mention those reflecting Harold’s great support of the State of Israel. In 1963, he spent a year at the Weizmann Institute with family, as a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fulbright Research Scholar; in 1972 to 1978 he held a Visiting Professor position in the Biophysics Department at the same.
