Robert H. Burris: Difference between revisions

| birth_date = April 13, 1914

| birth_place = [[Brookings, South Dakota]]

'''Robert H. Burris''' (April 13, 1914 – May 11, 2010)<ref name="Derby">{{cite news|url=http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/university/article_0ecd12fc-5e17-11df-b9a5-001cc4c03286.html|title=World-renowned UW-Madison biochemist Robert H. Burris dies at 96|last=Derby|first=Samara Kalk|date=May 12, 2010|publisher=madison.com|accessdate=13 May 2010}}</ref><ref name="Mitchell">{{cite web|url=http://www.news.wisc.edu/18085|title=Noted UW-Madison biochemist Robert Burris dies at 96|last=Mitchell|first=Bob |date=May 12, 2010|publisher=University of Wisconsin-Madison News|accessdate=12 May 2010}}</ref> was a professor in the [[Biochemistry]] Department at the [[University of Wisconsin-Madison]].<ref name="biochem">{{cite web|url=http://www.biochem.wisc.edu/faculty/burris/default.aspx|title=Robert H Burris Faculty Page|date=21 February 2008|publisher=Department of Biochemistry|accessdate=18 January 2010}}</ref> He was elected to the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]] in 1961.<ref name="Chet">{{cite book|last=Chet|first=Ilan|title=Wolf Prize in Agriculture|publisher=World Scientific Publishing Company|date=December 24, 2009|pages=245–250|isbn=978-9812835840|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=1v2vJmdAj84C&pg=PT259&lpg=PT259&dq=robert+h+burris+wisconsin&source=bl&ots=wdZQ2dq6r7&sig=lERoQYy3CJgWJ0xDSsr90MxyD-I&hl=en&ei=KO5US_aaDIW1tgfwnr2tDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CAkQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=robert%20h%20burris%20wisconsin&f=false|accessdate=19 January 2010}}</ref> Research in Burris's lab focused on [[enzyme]] reaction mechanisms,<ref name="biochem" /> and he made significant contributions to our knowledge of [[nitrogen fixation]].<ref name="Chet" /><ref name="Evans">{{cite book|last=Evans|first= Harold|coauthors=Robert H. Burris|title=Biological Nitrogen Fixation|editor= Gary Stacey |publisher=Springer|date=April 30, 1992|isbn=978-0412024214|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=TNpD9X-8TSsC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=Robert+H.+Burris&source=bl&ots=Vje1mlFFuu&sig=O-znNtuR0vPKLdWtHIjGljkGhNk&hl=en&ei=WwlVS-jMENOUtgeeyZ2kCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=Robert%20H.%20Burris&f=false}}</ref>

Born in [[Brookings, South Dakota]]<ref>[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xRRMf6bgmm8J:http://www.secfac.wisc.edu/senate/2010/1206/2227(mem_res).pdf+%22Robert+H.+Burris%22+born&hl=en&ct=clnk MEMORIAL RESOLUTION OF THE FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON ON THE DEATH OF PROFESSOR EMERITUS ROBERT H. BURRIS]</ref>, Burris earned his B.S. degree in Chemistry at [[South Dakota State University]] in 1936 and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1940.<ref name="biochem" />