Robert H. Burris (1914 to 2010) was an American biochemist who spent his career in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, chairing the department from 1958 to 1970 and training more than seventy doctoral students. His research on enzyme mechanisms in biological nitrogen fixation, the process by which certain organisms convert atmospheric nitrogen into forms plants can use, was central to understanding a process essential to agriculture, and it earned him election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1961, the National Medal of Science in 1979, and the Wolf Prize in Agriculture in 1985.
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Robert H. Burris (April 13, 1914, May 11, 2010) was a professor in the Biochemistry Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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American biochemist (1914-2010)
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Research in Burris's lab focused on enzyme reaction mechanisms, and he made significant contributions to our knowledge of nitrogen fixation.
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