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Robert Glaeser

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Robert Martin Glaeser
Born (1937-07-20) July 20, 1937 (age 87)
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Known fordevelopment of cryo-EM
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Websitehttp://mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/all/glaeserr

Robert Martin Glaeser (born July 20, 1937) is an American biochemist. He is a professor emeritus of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology at the University of California, Berkeley and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in Berkeley, California, US. His main research area is electron diffraction and membrane models.

Glaeser is known[1] for his pioneering work in cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM), where he established how radiation damage was a limiting factor for imaging resolution[2] and how freezing hydrated specimens allowed for more tolerance to radiation damage.[3] He also pushed electron imaging microscopy resolution and contrast by studying the effect of beam-induced movement on the resolution[4] and developed methods for weak-phase imaging.[5]

Glaeser studied at the University of Wisconsin – Madison (B.A. 1959) and the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. 1964). He was then a postdoc at the University of Oxford (1963/64) and University of Chicago (1964/65). In 1988/89 he was a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry (MPIB) in Martinsried near Munich, and later a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

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  1. ^ Lifetime Achievement Awardee – Robert Martin Glaeser – Berkeley Lab
  2. ^ Glaeser, Robert M. (1971). "Limitations to Significant Information in Biological Electron Microscopy as a Result of Radiation Damage". Journal of Ultrastructure Research. 36 (3–4): 466–482. doi:10.1016/S0022-5320(71)80118-1. PMID 5107051.
  3. ^ Glaeser, Robert M.; Taylor, Kenneth A. (1978). "Radiation-Damage Relative to Transmission Electron-Microscopy of Biological Specimens at Low-Temperature". Journal of Microscopy. 112 (1): 127–138. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2818.1978.tb01160.x. PMID 347079. S2CID 45670974.
  4. ^ Henderson, Richard; Glaeser, Robert M. (1985). "Quantitative analysis of image contrast in electron micrographs of beam-sensitive crystals". Ultramicroscopy. 16 (2): 139–150. doi:10.1016/0304-3991(85)90069-5.
  5. ^ Glaeser, R. M. (2013). "Methods for imaging weak-phase objects in electron microscopy". The Review of Scientific Instruments. 84 (11): 111101. doi:10.1063/1.4830355. PMC 3855062. PMID 24289381.
  6. ^ Berkeley Lab Director’s Awards for Lifetime Achievement
  7. ^ 2018 medalists – Glenn T. Seaborg Medal
  8. ^ Robert Glaeser – National Academy of Science