Louise Napier Johnson | |
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| Born | September 26, 1940 |
| Died | September 25, 2012 (aged 71) |
| Known for | Discovering the structure of lysozyme and N-Acetylglucosamine[1] |
| Spouse | Abdus Salam |
| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society Order of the British Empire |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
Professor Dame Louise Napier Johnson, DBE, FRS (26 September 1940 - 25 September 2012[2]), was a British biochemist and protein crystallographer. She was David Phillips Professor of Molecular Biophysics at the University of Oxford from 1990 to 2007, and later an emeritus professor.[3]
Career
She was a Fellow of Corpus Christi College and an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College.[4] In 2004 she was awarded an Honorary Degree from the University of Bath. She was elected a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences.[5]
She was part of the team, begun by William Lawrence Bragg and later led by David Phillips, that discovered the structure of the enzyme lysozyme;[6][7] this was the third protein structure ever solved by x-ray crystallography, and the first enzyme. She also worked with Fred Richards and Hal Wyckoff on the structure of ribonuclease S,[8] the fourth protein structure solved. Johnson's own lab at Oxford solved and studied many other protein structures, and she is a depositor on 100 PDB entries including many forms of glycogen phosphorylase[9] and of cell cycle CDK/cyclin complexes[10] Together with Tom Blundell, she wrote an influential textbook on protein crystallography.[11]
Personal life
Johnson was married to Nobel laureate Abdus Salam. She died on 25 September 2012 in Cambridge, England.[2][12]
References
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|doi=10.1038/202588a0instead. - ^ a b "ICTP - In Memoriam". Ictp.it. 1940-09-26. Retrieved 2012-10-06.
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|doi=10.1038/490488ainstead. - ^ University of Oxford. "Professors Emeritus". University of Oxford Calendar 2009–2010. Oxford University Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-19-956692-1.
- ^ Staff (8 October 2012). "Obituaries: Professor Dame Louise Johnson". The Telegraph (UK). Retrieved 2012-10-22.
- ^ "Lawrence Bragg and Lysozyme". Royal Institution of Great Britain. 2008. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
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|pmid=15660127instead. - ^ Blundell TL, Johnson LN (1976), Protein Crystallography, Academic Press, ISBN 0121083500
- ^ Tom Blundell. "Dame Louise Johnson obituary | Science | guardian.co.uk". Guardian. Retrieved 2012-10-10.
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