Elkan Rogers Blout (July 2, 1919 – December 20, 2006) was a biochemist at Polaroid Corporation, Boston Children's Hospital, and the Edward S. Harkness Professor of Biological Chemistry, Emeritus at Harvard University. Blout received his BA in chemistry in 1939 from Princeton University, and his Ph.D. in 1942 from Columbia University. Blout was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1969. In 1990, he was awarded the National Medal of Science “for his pioneering studies of protein conformation and devotion to the scientific enterprise of the Nation.” Blout died in December 2006, on Cuttyhunk Island. References External links 1919 births 2006 deaths American biochemists Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Foreign Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences National Medal of Science laureates Harvard Medical School faculty People from Cambridge, Massachusetts People from Cuttyhunk Island Princeton University alumni Columbia University alumni Phillips Exeter Academy alumni Members of the National Academy of Medicine