biography
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Astbury, William Thomas
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| male
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| lived:
| (1889–1961)
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| biography:
| X-ray crystallographer, born in Longton, Staffordshire, C England, UK. He studied at Cambridge and London, and from 1945 held the new chair of biomolecular structure at Leeds. Using X-ray diffraction photographs, his pioneering studies on protein fibres laid the basis for much later work. He probably coined the phase molecular biology; and with Florence Bell in 1938 offered the first hypothetical structure for the key genetic material DNA. |
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