Kim Sung-Hou

Who is this?

Kim Sung-Hou (Korean: 김성호; born 1937) is a Korean-born American structural biologist and biophysicist. Kim reported the first 3D structure of tRNA with A. Rich in 1973. He also published many papers on the structures of protein molecules including human Ras, human cyclin dependent kinase 2 and small heat shock protein. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1994. He is currently a professor in the department of chemistry at the U.C. Berkeley and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL).

Career

1. 1937
   Born
2. 1987
   Won Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award
3. 1994
   Won Ho-Am Prize in Science
4. 2018
   Won Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
5. Member of National Academy of Sciences
6. Won Guggenheim Fellowship

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Korea
• •Citizenship: United States, South Korea
• •Known as: crystallographer, biophysicist, biochemist, university teacher