Clinton Ballou
Clinton Edward Ballou is a professor emeritus of biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focused on the metabolism of carbohydrates and the structures of microbial cell walls. He joined the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1975.
He attended Boise Junior College, and graduated from Oregon State College, and the University of Wisconsin.
Ballou served in the U. S. Navy from 1944 to 1946. He held a postdoctoral fellowship with E. L. Hirst in Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. Ballou became a professor of biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley in 1955, becoming professor emeritus in 1991.
He served as an editorial board of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.Awards
