John Tileston Edsall (3 November 1902 – 12 June 2002) was a protein scientist, who contributed significantly to the understanding of the hydrophobic interaction.
[5] Edsall worked with Edwin Cohn during World War II to apply protein methods to blood fractionation.
[8] He published numerous papers on protein chemistry, including work on myosin,[9] fibrinogen,[10] light scattering,[11] measurement of tyrosine groups by ultraviolet spectroscopy,[12] and carbonic anhydrase.
He was invited by the publisher Kurt Jacoby and the founding editor Tim Anson, whom he had met in 1924 in Cambridge (although they were both undergraduates at Harvard University at nearly the same time).
[16] Contributing to the history of molecular biology in the period from 1898 to 1940, Edsall wrote on "development of the physical chemistry of proteins".