Architects of structural biology : Bragg,Perutz, Kendrew, Hodgkin / John Meurig Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, J. M. (John Meurig)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bragg, William Henry, 1862-1942.

Bragg, William Henry.

Perutz, Max F.

Kendrew, John C. (John Cowdery), 1917-1997.

Kendrew, John C.

Hodgkin, Dorothy, 1910-1994.

Hodgkin, Dorothy.

Laboratory of Molecular Biology--History.

Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Scientists--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Scientists.

Molecular biology--History--20th century.

Molecular biology.

Proteins--Structure--Research--History--20th century.

Proteins.

Proteins--Structure.

Research.

History.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

298 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Architects of Structural Biology' is an amalgam of memoirs, biography, and intellectual history of the personalities and single-minded devotion of four scientists who are among the greatest in modern times. These three chemists and one physicist, all Nobel laureates, played a pivotal role in the creation of a new and pervasive branch of biology. This led in turn to major developments in medicine and to the treatment of diseases as a result of advances made in arguably one of the greatest centres of scientific research ever: the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, which they helped to establish. Their work and that of their predecessors at the Royal Institution in London reflects the broader cultural, scientific and educational strength of the UK from the early 19th century onwards. The book also illustrates the nurturing of academic life in the collegiate system, exemplified by the activities of, and cross-fertilization within, a small Cambridge college."--Publisher's description.

Architects of Structural Biology' is an amalgam of memoirs, biography, and intellectual history of the personalities and single-minded devotion of four scientists who are among the greatest in modern times. These three chemists and one physicist, all Nobel laureates, played a pivotal role in the creation of a new and pervasive branch of biology. This led in turn to major developments in medicine and to the treatment of diseases as a result of advances made in arguably one of the greatest centres of scientific research ever: the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, which they helped to establish. Their work and that of their predecessors at the Royal Institution in London reflects the broader cultural, scientific and educational strength of the UK from the early 19th century onwards. The book also illustrates the nurturing of academic life in the collegiate system, exemplified by the activities of, and cross-fertilization within, a small Cambridge college.

Contents:

Max Perutz, John Kendrew, Peterhouse and the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory

The Birth and Initial Exploitation of X-ray Diffraction

W. H. Bragg and his Creation of a World-Famous Centre for X-ray Crystallography at the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory

A Dispute Between the Cavendish and Caltech: The Emergence and Ubiquity of the Alpha Helix

Perutz and Kendrew: The Heroic Era of Structural Molecular Biology

Sir Lawrence Bragg at the RI (1953-1966) and the Determination of the First Three-Dimensional Structure of an Enzyme at the DFRL (1965)

Lawrence Bragg and Linus Pauling: Comparisons and Rivalries

Biographical Sketches

Contributions of Cambridge College Life to Structural Biology: Peterhouse as an Exemplar

The Summing Up: The Astonishing Successes of the LMB, and the Dawn of a New Structural Biological Era.

ISBN:

0198854501

9780198854500

OCLC:

1112422797

Publisher Number:

99984751818