Gary Ackers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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biochemist
Date of Birth: 25-Oct-1939
Place of Birth: Dodge City, Kansas, United States
Date of Death: 20-May-2011
Profession: biochemist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Gary Ackers
- Gary Keith Ackers (1939 - 2011) was Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics of Washington University in St.
- Louis, Missouri.
- His research focused on thermodynamic linkage analysis of biological macromolecules, addressing the molecular mechanism of cooperative O2 binding in human hemoglobin since the early 1970s.
- He was a Fellow of the Biophysical Society and one of the founders of the annual Gibbs Conference.Professor Ackers invented agarose gel chromatography when he was a teenager.
- He went on the develop analytical gel chromatography methods for determinations of many important characteristics of water soluble proteins; diffusion coefficient, molecular size, thermodynamics of protein-protein interactions including important changes due to single amino acid substitutions.
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