David Haas

David Haas was born in Buffalo NY, and raised in a Texas farming community near the Mexican border. He graduated from the University of Buffalo (now SUNY at Buffalo) in 1962 with a bachelor’s degree in physics, and pursued his PhD studies in the lab of David Harker at the Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, where he studied protein crystallography. Haas pursued postdoctoral research at The Royal Institution of Great Britain, the Weizmann Institute of Science, and Purdue University, where he developed a method to extend the lifetime of protein crystals during X-ray crystallography. After finishing his postdoctoral work, Haas went into industry, where he worked for Philips Electronic Instruments and TEMTEC. In 2015 he became aware of his significant contribution to scientific research and has been delivering lectures on his experience to the structural biology community since then.