Jeffries Wyman

Molecular biologist, born in West Newton, Massachusetts, USA. The grandson of Harvard anatomist and zoologist Jeffries Wyman (1814–74), he taught and performed research at Harvard (1928–51), became a scientific adviser to the US Embassy, Paris (1951–4), then directed UNESCO's Middle East Science Office (1955–9). He relocated to the Regina Elena Institute in Rome (1960–84), where he remained active in research and scientific writing. He made major contributions to studies of allosteric enzymes and haemoglobin, and published extensively in scientific journals on the relationship of thermodynamics and electrostatics to biology.

Jeffries Wyman (August 11, 1814 - September 4, 1874) was an American naturalist and anatomist, born at Chelmsford, Mass. After studying on Europe, he was elected in 1843 professor of anatomy and physiology at Hampden-Sidney College, Richmond, Virginia. In 1847 he became professor of anatomy at Harvard, where he remained till his death, becoming the first curator of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology there. He made extensive and valuable collections in comparative anatomy and archæology, and he published nearly 70 scientific papers. His work as a comparative anatomist, a student of Native American antiquities, and as an early champion of evolution was of the first importance.

His brother Dr. Morrill Wyman was a respected Cambridge, Mass. Wilder, Leading American Men of Science, edited by D. Jordan (New York, 1910) This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.