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DepartmentPrinceton Chemistry

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ORCID0000-0002-5538-9813

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Totals

Publications125

Citations22,424

h-index96 · Scholar

Citations per year in post622.9

Years in post36 from the CV positions

Coverage

Works with a count121 of 125

Share97%

Positions

Master (Head) of Forbes College, PRINCETON UN…2010–2018

Associate Chair of Chemistry Department2004–2007

Professor2003–

Director of Undergraduate Studies2001–2008

Associate Professor1996–2003

Assistant Professor, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY - D…1990–1996

Top venues 53 venues

The 8 holding the most of these works; 45 more hold at least one.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Scienc…11

Journal of Geophysical Research Planets9

Protein Science9

Journal of the American Chemical Society8

Science7

The Astrophysical Journal Letters6

The Astrophysical Journal5

ACS Synthetic Biology4

Publications per year

Works this academic published in each year, by the year each work appeared; an undated work is in no year, and a work two colleagues wrote counts for each of them. The kind, works and year filters decide which works are here at all.

Citations per year

Citations received in each year, from this academic’s verified Scholar profile, which counts every citation to everything they ever wrote: no publication filter reaches this line - not the kinds, not the works switch, not the year window on publication - and no journal weight either. It is a profile total, so it does not match the works listed below.

Publications 125 works

Every work these filters select, most cited first and the works with no count at the end: a work nobody has a figure for is unknown, never a zero to be ranked among the works that have one, and it prints an em dash. Each figure is that work’s own citations - Scholar’s count where there is one, else OpenAlex’s - and is not weighted.

Year	Title	Venue	Kind	Citations
2009	Detection of perchlorate and the soluble chemistry of martian soil at the Phoenix lander site	Science	article	1,439
2022	First Sagittarius A* event horizon telescope results. VI. Testing the black hole metric	The Astrophysical Journal Letters	article	1,120
1993	Protein Design by Binary Patterning of Polar and Non-Polar Amino Acids	Science	article	1,012
2011	Amyloid-like Aggregates Sequester Numerous Metastable Proteins with Essential Cellular Functions	Cell	article	842
2009	H2O at the Phoenix Landing Site	Science	article	694
1990	De Novo Design, Expression, and Characterization of Felix: A Four-Helix Bundle Protein of Native-Like Sequence	Science	article	574
2022	First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope results. IV. Variability, morphology, and black hole mass	The Astrophysical Journal Letters	article	566
2022	First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope results. III. Imaging of the galactic center supermassive black hole	The Astrophysical Journal Letters	article	529
1999	De Novo Amyloid Proteins From Designed Combinatorial Libraries	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	article	461
2019	The event horizon general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic code comparison project	The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series	article	458
1997	De Novo Heme Proteins From Designed Combinatorial Libraries	Protein Science	article	456
2021	Constraints on black-hole charges with the 2017 EHT observations of M87	Physical review. D/Physical review. D.	article	431
2009	Evidence for calcium carbonate at the Mars Phoenix landing site	Science	article	425
2002	Metastability of liquid water on Mars	Icarus	article	416
2010	Atmospheric origins of perchlorate on Mars and in the Atacama	Journal of Geophysical Research Planets	article	392
1987	The localization and crystallographic dependence of Si suboxide species at the SiO2/Si interface	Journal of Applied Physics	article	391
1994	Recombinant Proteins Can Be Released From E. Coli Cells By Repeated Cycles of Freezing and Thawing	Nature Biotechnology	article	390
1995	Periodicity of Polar and Non-Polar Amino Acids is the Major Determinant of Secondary Structure in Self-Assembling Oligomeric Peptides	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	article	370
2002	Mutations that Reduce Aggregation of the Alzheimer’s Ab42 Peptide: An Unbiased Search for the Sequence Determinants of Ab Amyloidogenesis	Journal of Molecular Biology	article	337
2000	Evidence that the reactivity of the martian soil is due to superoxide ions	Science	article	327
1990	Role of photocurrent in low-temperature photoemission studies of Schottky-barrier formation	Physical Review B	article	308
2009	Mars water-ice clouds and precipitation	Science	article	302
2009	Ground ice at the Phoenix landing site: Stability state and origin	Journal of Geophysical Research Planets	article	282
2006	Generic Hydrophobic Residues are Sufficient to Promote Aggregation of the Alzheimer’s Ab42 Peptide	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	article	265
1992	Looking at Proteins: Representations, Folding, Packing, and Design	PubMed	article	255
1979	An absorption feature in the spectrum of the pulsed hard X-ray flux from 4U0115+ 63	Nature	article	233
2004	Electric and magnetic signatures of dust devils from the 2000–2001 MATADOR desert tests	Journal of Geophysical Research Planets	article	224
2002	Rationally Designed Mutations Convert De Novo Amyloid-Like Fibrils into Soluble Monomeric b-Sheet Proteins	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	article	224
2021	Mars oxygen ISRU experiment (MOXIE)	Space Science Reviews	article	220
2000	Nature Disfavors Sequences of Alternating Polar and Nonpolar Amino Acids: Implications for Amyloidogenesis	Journal of Molecular Biology	article	220
1984	Effect of Single Amino Acid Replacements on the Thermal Stability of the Amino Terminal Domain of Phage l-Repressor	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	article	210
2010	Initial results from the thermal and electrical conductivity probe (TECP) on Phoenix	Journal of Geophysical Research Planets	article	205
2006	A High Throughput Screen for Compounds that Inhibit Aggregation of the Alzheimer’s Peptide	ACS Chemical Biology	article	201
2010	Wet Chemistry experiments on the 2007 Phoenix Mars Scout Lander mission: Data analysis and results	Journal of Geophysical Research Planets	article	200
1983	Mutations in l-Repressor's Amino-Terminal Domain: Implications for Protein Stability and DNA Binding	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	article	197
2005	Mutagenesis of the Carboxy-Terminal Residues of the Alzheimer’s Peptide: Sequence Determinants of Enhanced Amyloidogenicity of Aβ42 Relative to Aβ40	Journal of Biological Chemistry	article	191
2025	Millimeter light curves of Sagittarius A* observed during the 2017 Event Horizon Telescope campaign	The Astrophysical Journal Letters	article	183
2020	Event Horizon Telescope imaging of the archetypal blazar 3C 279 at an extreme 20 microarcsecond resolution	Astronomy and Astrophysics	article	183
1995	4-Helix Bundles: What Determines a Fold?	The FASEB Journal	article	176
1995	Binary Patterning of Polar and Nonpolar Amino Acids in the Sequences and Structures of Native Proteins	Protein Science	article	170
2003	Solution Structure of a De Novo Protein from a Designed Combinatorial Library	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	article	160
2021	Broadband multi-wavelength properties of M87 during the 2017 Event Horizon Telescope campaign	The Astrophysical Journal Letters	article	152
2003	Stably Folded De Novo Proteins From a Designed Combinatorial Library	Protein Science	article	152
1986	Stabilization of l Repressor Against Thermal Denaturation by Site- Directed GlyàAla Changes in a-Helix 3	Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics	article	148
1989	Hydrogen-terminated silicon substrates for low-temperature molecular beam epitaxy	Thin Solid Films	article	147
2001	De Novo Proteins From Combinatorial Libraries	Chemical Reviews	article	145
1993	The Role of Turns in Dictating the Structure of an a-Helical Protein	Nature	article	144
1997	Protein Design:The Choice of De Novo Sequences	Journal of Biological Chemistry	article	143
2008	Introduction to special section on the phoenix mission: landing site characterization experiments, mission overviews, and expected science	Journal of Geophysical Research Planets	article	141
2013	The Icebreaker Life Mission to Mars: a search for biomolecular evidence for life	—	article	139
2020	THEMIS: A parameter estimation framework for the Event Horizon Telescope	The Astrophysical Journal	article	138
2011	De Novo Designed Proteins From a Library of Artificial Sequences Function in Escherichia Coli and Enable Cell Growth	PLoS ONE	article	136
2010	Soluble sulfate in the martian soil at the Phoenix landing site	Geophysical Research Letters	article	136
2002	Template-Directed Assembly of a De Novo Designed Protein	Journal of the American Chemical Society	article	135
2001	Self-Assembled Monolayers from a Designed Combinatorial Library of De Novo b-sheet Proteins	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	article	133
2018	The ALMA phasing system: a beamforming capability for ultra-high-resolution science at (sub) millimeter wavelengths	Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific	article	131
2007	Water vapor diffusion in Mars subsurface environments	Journal of Geophysical Research Planets	article	129
2021	The polarized image of a synchrotron-emitting ring of gas orbiting a black hole	The Astrophysical Journal	article	128
2012	A Novel Inhibitor of Amyloid b (Ab) Peptide Aggregation: From High Throughput Screening to Efficacy in an Animal Model of Alzheimer’s Disease	Journal of Biological Chemistry	article	128
2006	Findings of the Mars special regions science analysis group	—	article	128
2015	Self-Assembling Nano-Architectures Created from a Protein Nano-Building Block Using Domain-Swapped Dimeric De Novo Protein	Journal of the American Chemical Society	article	127
1994	De Novo Design of b-Sheet Proteins (Commentary)	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	article	127
2020	Verification of radiative transfer schemes for the EHT	The Astrophysical Journal	article	124
1980	Surface extended-x-ray-absorption-fine-structure study of oxygen interaction with Al (111) surfaces	Physical Review B	article	124
2023	First M87 Event Horizon Telescope results. IX. Detection of near-horizon circular polarization	The Astrophysical Journal Letters	article	122
1982	Photoemission and photon‐stimulated ion desorption studies of diamond (111): Hydrogen	Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B Microelectronics a…	article	119
2020	Monitoring the morphology of M87* in 2009–2017 with the Event Horizon Telescope	The Astrophysical Journal	article	117
2010	Small Molecule Microarrays Enable the Discovery of Compounds that Bind the Alzheimer’s Ab Peptide and Reduce Cytotoxicity	Journal of the American Chemical Society	article	114
1984	X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy study of the chemical structure of thermally nitrided SiO2	Applied Physics Letters	article	113
2004	Enzyme-like Proteins from an Unselected Library of Designed Amino Acid Sequences	Protein Engineering Design and Selection	article	112
1988	Scanning tunneling microscopy characterization of the geometric and electronic structure of hydrogen‐terminated silicon surfaces	Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A Vacuum Surfaces an…	article	111
2000	Peroxidase Activity in Heme Proteins Derived From a Designed Combinatorial Library	Journal of the American Chemical Society	article	106
1990	Direct spectroscopy of electron and hole scattering	Physical Review Letters	article	106
2005	Nanografting De Novo Proteins onto Gold Surfaces	Langmuir	article	105
2010	Microscopy analysis of soils at the Phoenix landing site, Mars: Classification of soil particles and description of their optical and magnetic properties	Journal of Geophysical Research Planets	article	104
1997	A Protein Designed by Binary Patterning of Polar and Nonpolar Amino Acids Displays Native-like Properties	Journal of the American Chemical Society	article	104
1980	Photoemission from Yb: Valence-change-induced Fano resonance	Physical Review B	article	103
2009	Cofactor Binding and Enzymatic Activity in an Unevolved Superfamily of De Novo Designed 4-Helix Bundle Proteins	Protein Science	article	100
2009	Thermal and electrical conductivity probe (TECP) for Phoenix	Journal of Geophysical Research Planets	article	93
2008	Mutations Enhance the Aggregation Propensity of the Alzheimer’s Ab Peptide	Journal of Molecular Biology	article	93
2025	Resolving the inner parsec of the blazar J1924–2914 with the Event Horizon Telescope	The Astrophysical Journal	article	89
2005	Ab initio Prediction of the Three-Dimensional Structure of a De novo Designed Protein: A Double Blind Case Study	Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics	article	69
2018	A De Novo Enzyme Catalyzes a Life-Sustaining Reaction in E. coli	Nature Chemical Biology	article	64
2000	Cooperative Thermal Denaturation of Proteins Designed by Binary Patterning of Polar and Nonpolar Amino Acids	Biochemistry	article	59
2008	Structure and Dynamics of De novo Proteins from a Designed Superfamily of 4-Helix Bundles	Protein Science	article	56
2003	Midpoint Reduction Potentials and Heme Binding Stoichiometries of De Novo Proteins from Designed Combinatorial Libraries	Biophysical Chemistry	article	56
2011	Mutations that replace aromatic side chains promote aggregation of the Alzheimer’s Ab peptide	Biochemistry	article	54
2007	Peroxidase Activity of De Novo Heme Proteins Immobilized on Electrodes	Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry	article	52
2001	Carbon Monoxide Binding by De Novo Heme Proteins From a Designed Combinatorial Library	Journal of the American Chemical Society	article	51
1983	Mutations Defining the Operator-Binding Sites of Bacteriophage l Repressor	Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology	article	49
2016	A Protein Constructed De Novo Enables Cell Growth by Altering Gene Regulation	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	article	46
1985	Increasing and Decreasing Protein Stability: Effects of Revertant Substitutions on the Thermal Denaturation of Phage l-Repressor	Journal of Cellular Biochemistry	article	42
1997	Detecting Native-like Properties in Combinatorial Libraries of De Novo Proteins	Folding and Design	article	38
1996	Sequence Replacements in the Central b-Turn of Plastocyanin	Protein Science	article	36
1999	H-Bonding Maintains the Active Site of Type I Copper Proteins: Site-Directed Mutagenesis of Asn38 in Poplar Plastocyanin	Biochemistry	article	35
1995	Variations in the Type I Copper Protein Coordination Group: Resonance Raman Spectrum of 34S, 65Cu, and 15N-Labeled Plastocyanin	Journal of the American Chemical Society	article	35
2016	A De Novo Protein Confers Copper Resistance in Escherichia Coli	Protein Science	article	32
2012	Directed Evolution of the Peroxidase Activity of a De Novo Designed Protein	Protein Engineering Design and Selection	article	32
2012	Domain- Swapped Dimeric Structure of a Stable and Functional De Novo 4-Helix Bundle protein, WA20	The Journal of Physical Chemistry B	article	32
1999	Screening Combinatorial Libraries of De Novo Proteins By Hydrogen- Deuterium Exchange and Electrospray Mass Spectrometry	Journal of the American Chemical Society	article	31
2015	De Novo Proteins with Life-Sustaining Functions are Structurally Dynamic	Journal of Molecular Biology	article	30
2018	Self-Assembling Supramolecular Nanostructures Constructed from de Novo Extender Protein Nanobuilding Blocks	ACS Synthetic Biology	article	29
2017	A Non-Natural Protein Rescues Cells Deleted for a Key Enzyme in Central Metabolism	ACS Synthetic Biology	article	29
2012	Proteins from an unevolved library of de novo designed sequences bind a range of small molecules	ACS Synthetic Biology	article	26
2005	An Intein-Based Genetic Selection Enables Construction of a High-Quality Library of Binary Patterned De Novo Sequences	Protein Engineering Design and Selection	article	26
2015	Divergent Evolution of a Bifunctional De Novo Protein	Protein Science	article	25
2006	Electrochemical and Ligand Binding Studies of a De Novo Heme Protein	Biophysical Chemistry	article	23
2002	UV Raman Monitoring of Histidine Protonation and H–2H Exchange in Plastocyanin	Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry	article	21
2014	Structure-Activity Relationships for a Series of Compounds that Inhibit Aggregation of the Alzheimer’s Peptide, Ab	Chemical Biology & Drug Design	article	20
2018	Are Natural Proteins Special? Can We Do That?	Current Opinion in Structural Biology	article	19
1978	Helix-Coil Stability Constants for the Naturally Occurring Amino Acids in Water: XVII Threonine Parameters from Poly (hydroxylbutyl-glutamine-co-L-threonine)	Macromolecules	article	19
2020	A Strategy for Combinatorial Cavity Design in De Novo Proteins	Life	article	16
2019	Unevolved De Novo Proteins Have Innate Tendencies to Bind Transition Metals	Life	article	15
2006	Combinatorial Approaches to Probe the Sequence Determinants of Protein Aggregation and Amyloidogenesis	Protein and Peptide Letters	article	15
2020	Hyperstable De Novo Proteins with a Dimeric Bisecting Topology	ACS Synthetic Biology	article	11
1997	Minimized Protein Structures: A Little Goes a Long Way (Commentary)	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	article	11
2018	Artificial Gene Amplification in Escherichia Coli Reveals Numerous Determinants Enabling Resistance to Metal Toxicity	Journal of Molecular Evolution	article	10
2011	Binding of Small Molecules to Cavity Forming Mutants of a De Novo Designed Protein	Protein Science	article	9
1994	Periplasmic Fractionation of Escherichia Coli Yields Recombinant Plastocyanin Despite the Absence of a Signal Sequence	Protein Expression and Purification	article	9
2003	1H, 13C and 15N Resonance Assignments of S-824, a De Novo Four-Helix Bundle From a Designed Combinatorial Library	Journal of Biomolecular NMR	article	5
2007	NMR Assignments of S836: A De Novo Protein From a Designed Superfamily	Biomolecular NMR Assignments	article	2
1998	Biopolymers - Editorial Overview	Current Opinion in Chemical Biology	article	—
1989	Design, Expression, and Preliminary Characterization of FELIX: A Model Protein	—	article	—
1985	l Repressor Revertants: Amino Acid Replacements that Restore Activity to Mutant Proteins	—	article	—
1983	The l and P22 Phage Repressors	—	article	—

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