Sidney P. Colowick

Sidney Paul Colowick (1916–1985) was an American biochemist, known for many contributions to metabolic biochemistry, especially glycogen metabolism, and as founding editor, with Nathan Kaplan, of the book series Methods in Enzymology.

Career Colowick studied at Washington University in St. Louis (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.) and Washington University School of Medicine and had his first academic appointment there. and the regulation of hexose transport in cultured animal cells.

He received the Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry (1947), and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1969), and the National Academy of Sciences (1972).

Personal life

Sidney Colowick was born on January 12, 1916, in St. Louis, MO. He married Grace Shaffel in 1943, with whom he had one son, and later Maryda Swanstrom in 1951, with whom he had three daughters. He died in Nashville, Tennessee on January 9, 1985.