BS in Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1949
Selected Awards/Societies
Proctor Medal Award by the Association for Research Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
Recipient of the American Physical Society Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics
Recipient of a National Eye Institute MERIT Award for Cataract Research Studies
Research Interests
Dr. Benedek researches phase transitions, aggregation and self-assembly of amphiphiles and proteins in aqueous solutions.
Reference Publications
Onofrio Annunziata, Neer Asherie, Aleksey Lomakin, Jayanti Pande, Olutayo Ogun, and George B. Benedek. “Effect of polyethylene glycol on the liquid–liquid phase transition in aqueous protein solutions,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99, 14165-14170 (2002).
Onofrio Annunziata, Olutayo Ogun, and George B. Benedek. “Observation of liquid–liquid phase separation for eyelens _S-crystallin,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 970-974 (2003).
Ajay Pande, Jayanti Pande, Neer Asherie, Aleksey Lomakin, Olutayo Ogun, Jonathan A. King, Nicolette H. Lubsen, David Walton, and George B. Benedek. “Molecular basis of a progressive juvenile-onset hereditary cataract,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97, 1993-1998 (2000).