Muttaiya Sundaralingam, a native of Malaysia, took his Ph. D. in the Chemistry Department, University of Pittsburgh, in 1961. After a Postdoctoral stint in the Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, he was appointed Research Instructor, Department of Biological Structure of the same School. He then held the following positions: Research Associate in Molecular Biology, Children's Cancer Research Foundation, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston and Research Associate in Biophysics (Honorary), Harvard University Medical School, Boston, MA., Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, Visiting Professor, University of Sao Paulo, San Carlos, Brazil, Chairman, Biophysics Ph.D. Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Steenbock Professor of Biomolecular Structure, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, Professor and Director of Biological Crystallography, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, Ohio Regent's Eminent Scholar; Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Director, Biological Macromolecular Structure Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, a position from which he recently retired. Among his honors are a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Oxford, 1975-1976 and University of Pittsburgh Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award, 1986. He was among the top 300 of the 1,000 most cited scientists for work published from 1965-1978.
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