Clinton Ballou
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Ballou was born in King Hill, Idaho in June 1923, to William Clinton Ballou and "Mollie" Ballou. He attended Boise Junior College, and graduated from Oregon State College, and the University of Wisconsin.[2] He served in the U. S. Navy from 1944 to 1946.
He held a postdoctoral fellowship with E. L. Hirst in Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. Ballou became a professor of biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley in 1955, and became a professor emeritus in 1991.[3]
Ballou served on the editorial board of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.[4] He died in March 2021 at the age of 97.[5]
Awards
- 1975 National Academy of Sciences
- 1981 American Chemical Society's Claude Hudson Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry
- 1972 Welch Foundation Lectureship
- 1976 University of Notre Dame Reilly Lectureship
- 1977 Duke University Belfort Lectureship
- 1961 National Science Foundation Senior Fellowship
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- 1923 births
- 2021 deaths
- Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
- American biochemists
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- People from Elmore County, Idaho
- University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
- University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
- United States Navy personnel of World War II