biography
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1924– )
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| biography:
| Molecular biologist, born in Birkenhead, Merseyside, NW England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, worked on radar in World War 2, and turned to biophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1952–4) and the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology from 1961. From the 1950s he was the central figure in developing the sliding filament model of muscle contraction. He developed this concept in detail with Jean Hansen, and devised X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy techniques for this work which are also applicable in other studies in physiology. He became professor of biology at Brandeis University, MA, in 1987. |
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