Stephen Kent (chemist)
(1945-)
American chemist
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Stephen B. H. Kent (December 12, 1945 in Wellington, New Zealand) is a chemistry professor at the University of Chicago and while professor at the Scripps Research Institute in the early 1990s was the inventor of native chemical ligation along with his student Philip Dawson . He also demonstrated the principle that mirror-image amino acids put together to form a protein create a mirror-image protein which, if an enzyme, can catalyze the mirror-image reaction. At the University of Chicago he and his junior colleagues pioneered the study of proteins by racemic crystallography.
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12 December 1945 (age 79)
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