Samuel Krimm (born October 19, 1925) is an American physicist with a research focus in biophysics (spectroscopy, macromolecules, protein folding).
[6] In 1977, Krimm received the American Physical Society's Polymer Physics Prize "For his outstanding experimental studies and theoretical developments in infrared and Ra-man spectroscopy and X-ray scattering from natural and synthetic polymers".
[7] From 1967-1972 he was doctoral advisor for Willie Hobbs Moore, who earned the first PhD in physics for an African-American woman at an American university.
[1] He was the first Director of the University of Michigan Program in Protein Structure and Design, created in 1985.
[8] He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles, on the infrared and Raman spectroscopy of synthetic polymers and proteins, and in the field of theoretical and computational studies of the structures of such macromolecules.