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DAVID J. HAAS PhD Home Telephone 845-357-3447 Email: [email protected] Born in Buffalo NY but raised in southern Texas, David returned to Buffalo for collage, receiving his BA in Physics and PhD in Biophysics (protein crystallography and molecular biology) at the State University of NY at Buffalo. For the next five years, he performed basic research in protein crystallography at several institutions in Europe and the United States. The 1970 paper by Haas & Rossmann demonstrated a technique for protein crystals to be cryo-cooled with liquid nitrogen and these cryo-cooled macromolecular crystals have reduced radiation damage. Whereas this technique was year ahead of its time, today cryo-crystallography is used at every synchrotron in the world. In 1970, he joined Philips Electronic Instruments in Mt Vernon NY as Principal Scientist for X-ray systems, working on analytical X-ray instruments and designing some of the first airport X-ray scanners used worldwide. Conceiving the idea of a color-changing security ID (one-day self-expiring badges), David and his wife, Sandra, formed Temtec Inc. in 1981 which developed and manufactured high-tech visitor/temporary IDs for more than 20 years under the brand name TEMPbadge. Temtec Inc. was sold to Brady Worldwide Corporation in 2002. David & Sandra Haas have more than 100 patents to their credit as well as many technical and scientific publications. In 1973, David was the main narrator in the U.S. Bureau of Radiological Health Film on 'Analytical X-Ray Safety' which is used to this day. His book, entitled “Personal Identification – Its Modern Development and Security Implications" was published in 2010 by ASIS Intl. It reviews the history and reasons for modern personal identification documents such as Passports, National Identity Cards, Real ID. Additional publications include: a monograph on the development of Aviation Passenger Security Screening (in 1973), Access Control Security Screening today and in 2020, the History-of-Science article: "The early history of cryo-cooling for macromolecular crystallography".
. Haas, D.J., and Rossmann, M.G. . Living History Biography by the American Crystallographic Association January 2016 . Haas, DJ. The early history of cryo-cooling for macromolecular crystallography (2020) . American Institute of Physics. Oral Interview Sept 2020
EXPERIENCE 2005 – Present 4/2002-3/2005 Consultant for 3 years - Principal Scientist 9/1983-3/2002 President 4/1970-9/1983 Principal Scientist, X-Rays 9/1967-4/1970 Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences 12/1966-8/1967 Van Leer Postdoctoral Fellow in Crystallography 9/1965-12/1966 NIH Postdoctoral Fellow 11/1964-8/1965 Research Physicist
EDUCATION 1961-1965 State University of New York at Buffalo, New York 1959-1961 State University of New York at Buffalo, New York Degree: BS in Physics
1953-1957 San Benito High School
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES American Chemical Society
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