Carlos F. Barbas III (1964-2014)

American chemist, professor at the Scripps Research Institute. With Richard Lerner he developed catalytic antibodies with aldolase activity and, with Benjamin List and Lerner, showed in 2000 that proline catalyses the direct asymmetric aldol addition, one of the founding papers of organocatalysis.

He was also a pioneer in the design of zinc-finger proteins able to recognize specific DNA sequences.

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