James Standish Clegg (July 27, 1933 – September 11, 2024) was an American biochemist who was Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at University of California, Davis,[1][3] based at the Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute (CMSI) in Bodega Bay, California.
[6][7] He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University in Zoology in 1958[4] and his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1961 for research investigating the physiology of blood trehalose and its function during flight in the blowfly.
[13] He has been a visiting scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in 1966, the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS, Paris), and University College of Wales in Aberystwyth, United Kingdom in 1990 and Ghent University in 1999.
[4] Clegg's research interests were biochemical and biophysical adaptations to environmental extremes (extremophiles); stress proteins and molecular chaperones in invertebrates; organization of enzymes and metabolic activity in the aqueous compartments of cells[14] and the physical properties of intracellular water.
[15] Clegg was awarded Phi Beta Kappa (ΦΒΚ) from Pennsylvania State University in 1958.