Elkan Rogers Blout (July 2, 1919 – December 20, 2006)[2] was a biochemist at Polaroid Corporation, Boston Children's Hospital, and the Edward S. Harkness Professor of Biological Chemistry, emeritus at Harvard University.
[3][4] Blout received his BA in chemistry in 1939 from Princeton University, and his Ph.D. in 1942 from Columbia University.
[5] Blout was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1969.
[3] In 1990, he was awarded the National Medal of Science “for his pioneering studies of protein conformation and devotion to the scientific enterprise of the Nation.”[6] Blout died in December 2006, in Boston.
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