This scientist spent the 1960s in Al Cotton’s lab reverse-engineering techniques to study the structure of Staphylococcal nuclease (“NUKE-lee-ace”). For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this biochemist who helped characterize superoxide dismutase as an inaugural entry in the PDB. This researcher’s article “Anatomy and Taxonomy of Protein Structures” introduced ribbon diagrams.
ANSWER: Jane Richardson [or Jane Shelby Richardson]
[10m] Margaret Thatcher briefly worked in the lab of this pioneering crystallographer, who won a Nobel Prize for finding the structure of vitamin B12.
ANSWER: Dorothy Hodgkin [or Dorothy Mary Crowfoot; or Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin]
[10e] Richardson and Hodgkin are successors of this pioneering crystallographer, who died of cancer shortly after Photo 51 was taken in her lab.
ANSWER: Rosalind Franklin [or Rosalind Elsie Franklin]
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