Xuong Nguyen-Huu
Encyclopedia
Xuong Nguyen-Huu received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship
, a NATO Senior Fellowship, and a UCSD Chancellor's Associates Award. He is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Physics and Biology at UC San Diego
. He is a pioneer of protein crystallography technology,”Xuong’s X-Ray Machine”( which can be used to find drugs to kill deadly viruses such as HIV (the AIDS virus), Polio etc.)
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
, a NATO Senior Fellowship, and a UCSD Chancellor's Associates Award. He is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Physics and Biology at UC San Diego
University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...
. He is a pioneer of protein crystallography technology,”Xuong’s X-Ray Machine”( which can be used to find drugs to kill deadly viruses such as HIV (the AIDS virus), Polio etc.)