Title:

Higgins Professor of Biochemistry

Affiliation:

Harvard University

Cambridge,Massachusetts  USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

2000

Award Discipline:

Chemistry

Award Year:

1988

Citation:

"For his discovery of the principle of suicide inhibitors for enzymes and for an example of that principle. His discovery points the way to the rational design of therapeutic agents."

Presented by President Reagan at a White House Ceremony on July 15, 1988.

Nobel Laureate:

Physiology or Medicine, 1964