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A Nobel Fellow On Every Floor : a History of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology

John Finch
In Cambridge in the 1950s, several research groups funded by the Medical Research Council were producing exciting results. In the Biochemistry Department, Sanger determined the amino acid sequence of insulin, and was awarded a Nobel Prize for this in 1958. At the Cavendish Laboratory, in the MRC Unit for the Study of the Molecular Structure of Biological Systems, Watson and Crick solved the structure of DNA, and Perutz and Kendrew produced the first three-dimensional maps of protein structures? haemoglobin and myoglobin? for which all four were later awarded Nobel Prizes. This made it

eBook, English, 2013
Icon Books, New York, 2013