Harland Goff Wood (September 2, 1907 – September 12, 1991) was an American biochemist notable for provingNational Academy of Sciences;National Academies Press:Biographical Memoirs:Harland Goff Wood;By David A. Goldthwait and Richard W. HansonWOOD, HARLAND GOFF - The Encyclopedia of Cleveland HistorySingleton, R. Jr. 1998. "A passion for the laboratory: Harland Goff Wood and American Biochemistry." CenterViews (CWRU: Center for Biomedical Ethics), Winter 97/98: 1 & 5 - 6Singleton, R. Jr. "Wood, Harland Goff" in New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (Noretta Koertge, Editor), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (In press, 2007). in 1935 that animals, humans and bacteria fixed carbon from carbon dioxide in the metabolic pathway to succinate. (Previously CO2 fixation had been thought to occur only in plants and a few unusual autotrophic bacteria.)
Awards and honours
Wood was a recipient of the National Medal of Science. He was on the President's Science Advisory Committee under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon. He was also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Biochemical Society of Japan. He was also first director of the department of biochemistry at the School of Medicine and dean of sciences, Case Western Reserve University.
Chronology 1907: born in Delavan, MN, to Inez Goff and William Clark Wood 1931: B.A. Macalester College 1935: Ph.D. Iowa State University 1936-1943: taught Bacteriology at Iowa State University 1943-1946: taught Physiology at the University of Minnesota 1946-67: director of the Department of Biochemistry at the School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
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