Wayne A. Hendrickson is an American

United States

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 biophysicist. Hendrickson is also a University professor at Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

. Hendrickson is most notably known for innovating the use of multi-wavelength anomalous dispersion

Multi-wavelength anomalous dispersion

Multi-wavelength anomalous diffraction is a technique used in X-ray crystallography that facilitates the determination of the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules via solution of the phase problem...

 as an analytical tool for protein crystallography.

Hendrickson obtained a B.A. in biology

Biology

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 and physics

Physics

Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

 from University of Wisconsin-River Falls

University of Wisconsin-River Falls

The University of Wisconsin–River Falls is a liberal arts undergraduate and graduate university and a member of the University of Wisconsin System. UW–River Falls is located in River Falls, Wisconsin on the famed trout fishing Kinnickinnic River. The campus consists of 32 major buildings, ten of...

 and a Ph.D in biophysics from Johns Hopkins University. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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 in 1992.

External links

• University biography from Columbia University