Denis L. Rousseau (signing papers as D. L. Rousseau) is an American

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. He is currently professor and university chairman of the department of physiology and biophysics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.Einstein faculty profiledepartment page
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Biography

Rousseau is

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and university chairman of

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and

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at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, of

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, a position he has held since 1996. He received his B.A. from

Bowdoin College Bowdoin College ( ) is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine. It was chartered in 1794. The main Bowdoin campus is located near Casco Bay and the Androscoggin River. In a ...

and received his Ph.D. in

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from

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. After holding a position as research associate in the physics department at the

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in ...

, studying with Sergio Porto, he joined

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in 1969.

Research

In the 1970s, he used infrared spectroscopy to demonstrate that what was thought to be a newly discovered form of water, polywater, was structurally similar to human sweat. This result suggested that the novel properties of polywater were due to contamination from biological impurities, and later described the proposal of polywater as an example of pathological science. He is also a pioneer in using resonance Raman spectroscopy to study heme proteins, notably

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, nitric oxide synthase, and the folding of cytochrome c.

Significant publications

References

External links

Rousseau Laboratory
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