I am a chemist and X-ray crystallographer. My research science reveals the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal and graphite from the patterns X-rays leave on film.
The person outside the work — what they're learning and tinkering with.
In 1947 I joined Jacques Mering's laboratory in Paris, where I learned to apply X-ray diffraction to amorphous, disordered substances such as carbon — the skill my later research relied on.
I was invited to build a five-foot model of tobacco mosaic virus for Expo 58, showing the public the structure my group had found, made from table tennis balls and bicycle handlebar grips.
All areas4 of 20 fields
Organics, Genetics, Cell Biology
Organic & Biochemistry · Genetics & Heredity · Cell & Molecular Biology
