James S. Clegg

Early life and education Clegg was born in Aspinwall, Pennsylvania on July 27, 1933. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University in Zoology in 1958

Research and career After his PhD, Clegg was a postdoctoral researcher with David R. Evans from 1961 to 1962. At the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clegg was a predoctoral fellow and postdoctoral fellow from 1960 to 1962. from 1963 to 1986 and UC Davis from 1986. He has been a visiting scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in 1966, the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS, Paris), and University College of Wales in Aberystwyth, United Kingdom in 1990 and Ghent University in 1999. and the physical properties of intracellular water.

Awards and honors Clegg was awarded Phi Beta Kappa (ΦΒΚ) from Pennsylvania State University in 1958. Clegg was a Woodrow Wilson fellow at the Johns Hopkins University from 1958 to 1959. He was a Fulbright Program senior research fellow at the University of London in 1978 and again at Ghent University, Belgium in 1999. He was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (FAAAS) in 1985.