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Book review: Architects of Structural Biology

December 15, 2020

Arpan K. Banerjee Solihull, United Kingdom   Cover of Architects of Structural Biology by John Meurig Thomas. Modern twenty-first-century high-technology medicine, which we now take for granted, was only made possible by remarkable advances in the physical and biological sciences of the twentieth century. In Architects of Structural Biology, the contributions of four scientific giants […]

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin OM, FRS (1910-1994)

November 4, 2020

JMS Pearce Hull, England   Fig 1: Dorothy Hodgkin. by Godfrey Argent. National Portrait Gallery, London. CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. Dorothy Hodgkin (Fig 1), though not by religion, had close Quaker affinities through her marriage and through her spirited pacifism. She possessed a unique mixture of scientific skills that allowed her to extend the use of […]