David Mervyn Blow
David Mervyn Blow FRS FInstP (27 June 1931 – 8 June 2004) was an influential British biophysicist. He was best known for the development of X-ray crystallography, a technique used to determine the molecular structures of tens of thousands of biological molecules. This has been extremely important to the pharmaceutical industry.
David Mervyn Blow | |
|---|---|
| Born | 27 June 1931 Birmingham, England |
| Died | 8 June 2004 (aged 72) |
| Education | Kingswood School |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
| Known for | Haemoglobin X-ray crystallography |
| Spouse |
Mavis Sears (m. 1955) |
| Awards | Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1987) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biophysicist |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology National Institutes of Health Imperial College London MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology |
| Thesis | X-ray analysis of haemoglobin : determination of phase angles by isomorphous substitution (1958) |
| Doctoral advisor | Max Perutz |
| Other academic advisors | Alexander Rich |
| Doctoral students |
|
| Other notable students | Thomas A. Steitz Brian Matthews |
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.