Roberta F. Colman
Roberta F. Colman | |
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| Born | Roberta Fishman 1938 New York, USA |
| Died | August 15, 2019 (aged 80–81) Media, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Occupations | Biochemist, college professor |
| Employer(s) | Washington University in St. Louis University of Delaware |
Roberta F. Colman (1938 – August 15, 2019), born Roberta Fishman, was an American biochemist.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Roberta Fishman was from New York City, the daughter of William and Esther Fishman of Brooklyn.[1] As a student at Forest Hills High School in 1955, she received a Westinghouse Science Talent Search Award,[2] and met president Dwight D. Eisenhower.[3] Colman earned her bachelor's degree at Radcliffe College in 1959,[4] and completed doctoral studies at Harvard University in 1962, with Frank Westheimer as her advisor. She held post-doctoral fellowships at the National Institutes of Health and the Washington University School of Medicine.[5]
Career
[edit | edit source]In 1966, she joined the faculty at the Washington University School of Medicine, where she had carried out postdoctoral research.[5] From 1967 to 1973, Colman was a professor at Harvard Medical School, beginning as an assistant professor and later being promoted to associate professor.[5] She joined the faculty at the University of Delaware in 1973, the first female biochemist to hold a faculty position there. She was the Willis F. Harrington Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry,[6] and director of the Chemistry-Biology Interface Graduate Program.[5] She was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1988.[7] In 1988, Colman represented the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), when testified at a Senate budget hearing in support of increased funding for the National Science Foundation.[8]
Colman's research involved "the effects of chemical modifications on enzymes".[9] She held research grants from the National Science Foundation,[10] the American Cancer Society[11] and the National Institutes of Health,[12][13] and wrote or co-wrote over 260 published scholarly articles.[14] She served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Protein Expression and Purification, and Protein Science, and was editor-in-chief of Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics from 1984 to 2001. She retired from the University of Delaware in 2009.[14]
Among her biochemistry graduate students at Delaware was Siddhartha Roy.[15]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]During college, Roberta Fishman married Robert W. Colman, a medical student, who had also won a Westinghouse Science Talent Search Award in the 1950s.[2] They had two children. Robert Colman became a professor of medicine at Temple University.[16] Roberta F. Colman died in 2019, in Media, Pennsylvania, aged 81 years.[14][17]
References
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- ^ Roberta F. Colman, principal investigator, "Affinity Labeling of Purine Nucleotide Sites in Proteins" (1981-1983), National Science Foundation Award Abstract #8021572.
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Colman's faculty page at the University of Delaware.
- Roberta F. Colman at Chemistry Tree.
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- 1938 births
- 2019 deaths
- American biochemists
- American women scientists
- Radcliffe College alumni
- Harvard College alumni
- University of Delaware faculty
- Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American women academics
- 21st-century American women
- Washington University School of Medicine faculty
- Washington University in St. Louis fellows