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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X-ray studies of the structures of hair, wool, and related fibres. I. General.Phil.Trans., Series A, 230, 75-101, 1932.Astbury, a student of William Lawrence Bragg, was the first to study proteins by X-ray analysis. He applied X-ray analysis to the structure of hair, wool, and related fibers, of which the protein keratin is the principal component, and identified two states: α-keratin and β-keratin. With A. Street. For further information see the entry at HistoryofInformation.com at this link. Astbury's paper is available from jstor at this link. Subjects: BIOCHEMISTRY, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › X-Ray Crystallography Permalink: historyofmedicineandbiology.com/id/9083 |