Joyce Jacobson Kaufman is a Jewish American chemist Kaufman was born in the Bronx to Robert and Sarah (Seldin)

Jacobson in 1929. In 1972 she introduced the concept of conformational topology and applied it to biomedical molecules.

Kaufman also published a landmark paper in 1980 in which she described a new theoretical method for coding and retrieving certain carcinogenic hydrocarbons. She was invited by NSF to use the Cray X-MP (1985) and YMP (1989) supercomputers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Kaufman wanted to be a chemist at age eight after reading a biography of Marie Curie. That year she was chosen to attend a summer course at Johns Hopkins University for gifted children in math and science. In 1945, she was admitted as a special student to Johns Hopkins University.

She then worked at the Army Chemical Center. In 1952 she returned to Johns Hopkins where she works with her second husband and ex-former professor Walter S. Koski. Kaufman received her M.A. in 1959 and her Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 1960.In 1962 she went to Paris, where she became a visiting scientist, receiving a doctoral degree in theoretical physics from the Sorbonne the following year.

Kaufman was elected as a fellow of the American Institute of Chemists, American Physical Society. In 1973 she received the Garvan Medical Award of the American Chemical Society. In 1974 the Jewish National Fund honored her with a Woman of Achievement .In 1981 she was elected corresponding member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

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