Francis Millett
University of Arkansas, USA
Biography
Francis Millett received his B.S in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin in 1965, his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from Columbia University in 1970, and was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at California Institute of Technology from 1970-1972. He joined the faculty of the University of Arkansas in 1972, and is now a Distinguished Professor. He developed, together with Bill Durham, the ruthenium photoreduction method which made it possible to measure the kinetics of key steps in electron transfer during mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation. He has directed collaborative, multidisciplinary research which combines rapid kinetics methods, site-directed mutagenesis, X-ray crystallography, and NMR to investigate protein structure-function relationships.