An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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Structure of haemoglobin: A three-dimensional Fourier synthesis at 5.5-A. resolution, obtained by X-ray analysis.

Nature, 185, No. 4711, 416-422, 1960.

Solution of the structure of hemoglobin, a protein with 10,000 atoms. This was the culmination of 30 years of research by Perutz.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Perutz, Rossmann, Culis, Muirhead, Will, North.

In 1962 Perutz shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his student John Cowdery Kendrew "for their studies of the structures of globular proteins."



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Protein Structure, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Chemistry (selected)
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