Hsien Wu was a Chinese biochemist and geneticist. He was the first to propose that protein denaturation was a purely conformational change, i.e., corresponded to protein unfolding and not to some chemical alteration of the protein. This crucial idea was popularized later by Linus Pauling and Alfred Mirsky.
- Occupation
- biochemist, geneticist
- Citizenship
- Republic of China
- Born
- November 24, 1893
- Died
- August 8, 1959
