Richard Winfield Hanson (1936 – February 28, 2014) was an American biochemist, researcher and university professor.
Life Hanson was born in 1936 in New Jersey.
He died on February 28, 2014 at the age of 78.
Education
Hanson attended Northeastern University in Boston.
He completed his PhD at Brown University in 1961. His doctoral dissertation supervisor was Paul F. Fenton.
Career
Hanson served as the Leonard and Jean Skeggs Professor of Biochemistry and Distinguished University Professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.
His first graduate student, Dr. Shirley M. Tilghman, has served as president of Princeton University.
Awards and honours
Hanson has received a number of awards:
William C. Rose (1999) the ASBMB/Merck (2006) awards from the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology the Meade Johnson Award (1971) the Osborne/Mendel Award (1995) from the American Institute of Nutrition
References
External links https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(14)00172-7 https://case.edu/universityprofessor/past-recipients/richard-w-hanson https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262110506_Richard_Winfield_Hanson_1936-2014 https://library.brown.edu/theses/theses.php?task=search&id=5448