Marvin W. Makinen currently holds the rank of Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago.
CHICAGO, IL, March 29, 2019 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Marvin W. Makinen with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Marvin W. Makinen celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Having joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1974, Marvin W. Makinen currently holds the rank of Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago. He considers the University of Chicago to be a unique university because of the intensity with which faculty and students alike are highly motivated to seek new knowledge through research. Makinen's main research interests at the University of Chicago have been directed to the structural basis of enzyme action.
Upon completing medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, Makinen served as an intern at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center of New York whereafter he was a medical officer in the United States Public Health Service and a Research Associate at the National Institutes of Health for two years. Subsequently through the support of an NIH Special Fellowship, he read for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Molecular Biophysics in Merton College at Oxford University. Additionally, Professor Makinen has carried out sabbatical study at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) as an EMBO Senior Fellow and a John T. Fogarty International Fellow, and as a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation at the University of Colorado (Boulder). As a Visiting Professor at the PET Centre of the Hospital of the University of Turku (Finland), he has subsequently continued his research on developing a method of making PET imaging more sensitive for detection of cancer. For the latter research he was supported as a Fellow of the Sigrid Juselius Foundation (Helsinki, Finland).
Professor Makinen grew up on his grandfather's farm in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and developed a fascination for science at an early age. To him it is impossible not to become fascinated with science because of the immediate relationship agriculture has to biology and plant science. He began his academic pursuits at the University of Pennsylvania and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry in 1961 and a Doctor of Medicine in 1968. For his fourth year of undergraduate study (1960-1961), he was awarded a Willi Brandt Exchange Scholarship for study at the Free University of Berlin. During this year he continued his pursuit of the study of chemistry, in particular, physical organic chemistry.
Professor Makinen is a member of the American Chemical Society, the Biophysical Society, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
From 2009 to 2014, Professor Makinen was president of the Independent Investigation into Raoul Wallenberg's Fate, Inc., an organization dedicated to uncovering the truth about the arrest of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat credited with saving tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from annihilation during the closing days of World War II. Wallenberg was arrested by Soviet forces in Budapest, taken to the Soviet Union and held incommunicado with no explanation to the present day. As part of his efforts to uncover the truth about Raoul Wallenberg, Professor Makinen has served as a member of the Soviet-International Commission on the Fate and Whereabouts of Raoul Wallenberg (1990-1991) and as a permanent consultant to the Swedish-Russian Working Group on the Fate of Raoul Wallenberg (1991-2001), a bilateral committee appointed through both the Swedish and Russian governments. Makinen's interest and efforts in uncovering the truth about Raoul Wallenberg has origins in his own arrest and incarceration in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s where he learned independently from three different Soviet prisoners of a Swedish prisoner "Vandenberg" and that one of his cellmates had also been a cellmate of this prisoner.
Professor Makinen has been selected for inclusion in multiple editions of Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the Midwest and Who's Who in Science and Engineering.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to his profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, Marvin W. Makinen has been featured on the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
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