Paul Englund

Paul Theodore Englund (March 25, 1938 – January 12, 2019) was an American biochemist.

He was born to parents Theodore and Mildred Englund, in Worcester, Massachusetts. Englund studied chemistry at Hamilton College, graduating in 1960, and earned a doctorate in biochemistry at Rockefeller University under the supervision of Lyman C. Craig in 1966. Englund's postdoctoral fellowship was funded by the National Institute of Health. He worked with Arthur Kornberg at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Englund began teaching at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1968, and remained on the faculty until retirement in 2010. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.

Englund died of Parkinson's disease on January 12, 2019, aged 80.