William A. Eaton

Quick Facts

Full Name	William A. Eaton
Occupation	Physicist
Date Of Birth	Jun 4, 1938(1938-06-04)
Age	86
Birthplace	Philadelphia
Country	United States
Birth City	Pennsylvania
Horoscope	Gemini

William A. Eaton Biography

William A. Eaton is one of the most popular and richest Physicist who was born on June 4, 1938 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Eaton has spent his entire career at the NIH after arriving as a medical officer in the Public Health Service in January 1968, leaving only once for a significant period of time to teach physical chemistry as a Visiting Professor at Harvard for the Spring semester of 1976. In 1972, he was tenured in the then-new Laboratory of Chemical Physics and became its chief in 1986. Eaton’s early work at NIH built on his work on heme proteins, focusing mainly on hemoglobin and the abnormal aggregation of the mutant form of the protein found in sickle-cell anemia. In the early 1990s, Eaton began to focus on theoretical and experimental studies of protein folding and has been particularly influential in the study of fast-folding proteins and applications of single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy.

In addition to research, Eaton is credited for developing the Laboratory of Chemical Physics within the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH into one of the very top biophysics/structural biology departments in the USA. Eaton, as Chief of the Laboratory of Chemical Physics, recruited the legendary theorist, Robert Zwanzig, and scientists such as Ad Bax, Marius Clore, Angela Gronenborn, and Attila Szabo, all of whom were subsequently elected to the US National Academy of Sciences. As Scientific Director from 1986-2018 of the Intramural AIDS Targeted Anti-viral Program of the Office of the Director, NIH, Eaton directed a program that contributed to the sterling record of NIH scientists in meeting the AIDS crisis, a program that has been a model for new special granting programs within NIH.

William A. Eaton Net Worth

William A. Eaton is one of the richest Physicist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, William A. Eaton 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Eaton was born and raised in Philadelphia. Like many in his family, he attended the University of Pennsylvania as an undergraduate, majoring in chemistry and graduating in 1959. He then spent one year in Germany as the first Willy Brandt – University of Pennsylvania exchange student at the Free University Berlin. He entered Penn medical school in the Fall of 1960, but discovered that he was more interested in research, particularly after spending the summer of 1962 carrying out research on protein biosynthesis under the supervision of Sydney Brenner at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England. He decided to pursue a Ph.D. and became one of Penn’s first M.D.-Ph.D. students, working with Robin Hochstrasser on molecular spectroscopy of single crystals of heme proteins. He received his M.D. in 1964 and his Ph.D. in 1967. After finishing his Ph.D. research, he was drafted into the military and chose to fulfill his military obligation as a medical officer in the United States Public Health Service, where he could conduct research at the National Institutes of Health.

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Frank Ranked on the list of most popular Physicist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. William A. Eaton celebrates birthday on June 4 of every year.