work_places nationality field birth_date known_for article_title name alma_mater
university of pennsylvania united states biochemistry 29 november 1938 x-ray crystallography , textbook author donald voet
 donald voet california institute of technology
donald voet

donald herman voet -lrb- born november 29 , 1938 -rrb- is an emeritus associate professor of chemistry at the university of pennsylvania .
his laboratory uses x-ray crystallography to understand structure-function relationships in proteins .
he and his wife , judith g. voet , are authors of biochemistry text books that are widely used in undergraduate and graduate curricula .
