Jan Drenth

Dutch chemist (born 1925)

Jan Drenth (born 20 February 1925) is a Dutch chemist. He was a professor of structural chemistry at the University of Groningen from 1969 to 1990.^[1]

Career

Drenth was born in Groningen.^[1] He obtained his PhD in mathematics and physics under Eelco Wiebenga at the University of Groningen in 1957, with a dissertation titled: Een röntgenografisch onderzoek van excelsine, edestine en tabakszaadglobuline. Drenth subsequently moved to New York, United States, where he became a post-doc and studied protein crystallography under Barbara Low. Drenth then returned to the Netherlands and in 1967 was appointed as lector.^[1]^[2] In 1969 he was appointed as professor of structural chemistry, which he remained until his retirement in 1990.^[1]

Drenth was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1973.^[3]

Works

Principles of Protein X-Ray Crystallography.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Jan Drenth, 1925" (in Dutch). University of Groningen. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
^ Een verborgen revolutie: de computerisering van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Uitgeverij Verloren. 2012. pp. 59–. ISBN 978-90-8704-298-1.
^ "Jan Drenth". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 17 September 2016.