Joseph Frederick Hoffman (March 7, 1925 – May 19, 2022) was an American scientist who primary researched the physiology of red blood cells.
[1][2] Hoffman attended the University of Oklahoma, where he majored in zoology for his undergraduate degree.
Faculty member Francis R. Hunter then invited Hoffman to work in his lab over the summer, researching the permeability of red blood cells.
While an undergraduate, he participated in a sit-in for three days and nights over the university's rejection of Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, a black woman, from its law school on the basis of race.
Hoffman attended Princeton University for a second master's degree and his doctoral studies, under the advisement of Arthur K.