Stephen B. H. Kent
Inventing Synthetic Methods to Discover How Enzymes Work
336 pp., 267 Figs., 39.80 €, doi: 10.47261/1549
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Creative “cheating” led , born in 1945, to solve one of the Grand Challenges of 20th Century chemistry: the total synthesis of protein molecules. Twenty-five formative years in his native New Zealand had prepared him in manifold ways. Vigorous debates at the family dinner table, combined with secondary school classes in Kantian moral philosophy and the discipline of competitive distance running influenced his later successes in scientific research. As a university undergraduate he was fascinated by the ability of enzymes to catalyze chemical reactions and set out to gain the expertise to understand how they did it. Steve loved to experiment and didn’t leave the bench for many years to come. Keep it simple, be counter-dogma and ignore the opinions of referees were his guiding principles. Read how his ambition to understand the chemistry of enzyme catalysis led Stephen Kent to the United States and about his adventures there in science and everyday life.
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Preliminary note
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Stephen Kent: CV & Bibliography(PDF, 504 kB)
Stephen Kent 1987: Protein Chemistry and the Development of Diagnostics and Therapeutics(PDF, 9.6 MB)
In October 2018 I was invited by the United States National Institutes of Health to give a presentation at the dedication of an exhibit of Christian Anfinsen´s Nobel Prize research. The short talk summarized the importance for total chemical synthesis of protein molecules of Anfinsen’s “Thermodynamic Hypothesis”. A video of that talk can be found here:youtu.be/QAACjkwFxyI
Stephen B.H. Kent and the Legacy of Emil Fischer16th Symposium of the Research Training Group “Bioactive Peptides”
October 10, 2022, in Berlin
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Max Bergmann Circle for the Promotion of Peptide Chemistrywww.max-bergmann-kreis.org
The European Peptide Society (EPS)www.eurpepsoc.com
Stephen B.H. Kent at the “Advances in Structural Analysis of Biomolecules” SymposiumOctober 23–24, 2025, in Berlin
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