Ignacio Tinoco, Jr. is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, a position he has held since 1956.
Ignacio Tinoco received a Bachelor's degree from the University of New Mexico in 1951, and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1954. He was a postdoctoral fellow with John Kirkwood at Yale University from 1954-56. He joined the University of California, Berkeley as a faculty member in 1956, where he is presently Professor in the Graduate School and a Faculty Senior Scientist, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He was Chairman of the Chemistry Department.
His honors and awards include: Guggenheim Fellow, Medical Research Council Laboratory, Cambridge; California Section Award, American Chemical Society; D.Sc. University of New Mexico; Member, National Academy of Sciences; Elisabeth R. Cole Award, Biophysical Society; Berkeley Citation, University of California; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Founders Award, Biophysical Society; Fellow: American Physical Society, Biophysical Society.
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