John Buchanan
- Category : 1917-births
- Type : ME
- Profile : 3/5 - Martyr / Heretic
- Definition : Split - Small (19,48,55)
- Incarnation Cross : RAX Service 3
Biography
American professor of biochemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He arrived at MIT in 1953 and retired in 1988 after a distinguished career in which he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. He played a key role in the development of MIT's Department of Biology as a major force in biochemistry research and was himself a prominent researcher of purine biosynthesis. He died in Burlington, Massachusetts on 25 June 2007 at age 89.