Awards & Winners

Britton Chance

Date of Birth 24-July-1913
Place of Birth Wilkes-Barre
(Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States of America)
Nationality
Profession Chemist, Sailor
Britton Chance was the Eldridge Reeves Johnson University Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Biophysics, as well as Professor Emeritus of Physical Chemistry and Radiological Physics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. At the 1952 Summer Olympics, Chance won a gold medal in sailing.

Awards by Britton Chance

Check all the awards nominated and won by Britton Chance.

1974


National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences
(For his contributions to our knowledge of cellular and subcellular physiology made through work on enzyme-substrate complexes, on the kinetics of enzyme action, and on the mechanism and control of membrane-bound elecron transfer during cellular respiration.)

1972


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(For his ingenuity in devising biophysical techniques for the observation of molecular events in living tissues, cells and organelles and for his unique imaginativeness in applying these techniques to bridge the gap between our knowledge of isolated enzymes and the phenomena of physiology and pharmacology.)