Ignacio Tinoco, Jr.

Ignacio Tinoco, Jr.
Fields	Chemistry
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Alma mater	University of New Mexico, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Yale University
Doctoral advisor	John D. Ferry
Other academic advisors	John G. Kirkwood
Doctoral students	Carlos Bustamante, Charles Cantor
Influenced	Douglas H. Turner, Olke C. Uhlenbeck

Ignacio Tinoco, Jr. is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, a position he has held since 1956.

Ignacio Tinoco received a Bachelor's degree from the University of New Mexico in 1951, and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1954. He was a postdoctoral fellow with John G. Kirkwood at Yale University from 1954-56. He joined the University of California, Berkeley as a faculty member in 1956, where he is Professor in the Graduate School and a Faculty Senior Scientist, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He was Chairman of the Chemistry Department (1979-82).

His honors and awards include: Guggenheim Fellow, Medical Research Council Laboratory, Cambridge (1964); California Section Award, American Chemical Society (1965); D.Sc. University of New Mexico (1972); Member, National Academy of Sciences (1985); Elisabeth R. Cole Award (Founders Award), Biophysical Society (1996); Berkeley Citation, University of California (1996); Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001); Emily M. Gray Award, Biophysical Society (2006); Fellow: American Physical Society, Biophysical Society.

Further reading

• -- Autobiographical article by Tinoco