Alton Meister

Alton Meister (1922–1995) was an American biochemist who made pioneering contributions on the study of glutathione metabolism. He was born in New York and studied at Cornell University. After gaining his MD he moved to the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethusda, Maryland. He remained there until 1955 when he moved to the biochemistry department at the Tufts University. Meister returned to Cornell in 1967 and served as chairman of the college's biochemistry department until his death in 1995 at the age of 72.