Thomas Bruice
Thomas C. Bruice | |
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| Born | August 25, 1925 |
| Died | February 15, 2019 (aged 93) |
| Education | University of Southern California (B.S., Ph.D.) |
| Known for | Use of imidazole-catalyzed hydrolysis of p-nitrophenyl acetate as a model system |
| Awards | NAS Award in Chemical Sciences |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Bioorganic chemistry, enzyme catalysis, computational chemistry |
| Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles Yale University Johns Hopkins University Cornell University University of California, Santa Barbara |
Thomas C. Bruice (August 25, 1925 – February 15, 2019) was a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at University of California, Santa Barbara. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1974. He was a pioneering researcher in the area of bioorganic chemistry, one of the pillars of what was to become modern chemical biology, and is one of the 50 most cited chemists.