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Pirie, Norman Wingate
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| British biochemist. He studied at Cambridge, and taught there (1932–40) before joining the Rothamsted Experimental Station (1940–73), becoming head of the biochemistry department in 1947. With Sir Frederick Bawden (1908–72) he isolated in 1936 the tobacco mosaic virus in crystalline form, the first scientist to do so for any virus, and an important step on the road to the understanding of DNA and RNA. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society (1949). |
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