Gordon G. Hammes (born 1934 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin) is a distinguished service professor of chemistry, emeritus, at Duke University, professor emeritus at Cornell University, and member of United States National Academy of Sciences.
[1] Hammes conducted postdoctoral research with Manfred Eigen at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany.
He then secured a faculty position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before moving to Cornell University in 1965, where he was professor and chair of the department of chemistry.
[5] Dr. Hammes is a world leader in the field of enzyme mechanisms and regulation, starting with work with Eigen on the temperature-jump technique[6][7] and with Robert Alberty on relaxation spectra.
[14] He developed new methodologies that allowed a better understanding of enzyme catalysis,[15] including fast reaction techniques,[6][7] fluorescence spectroscopy, and single molecule microscopy.