British scientist (1935–2022)
Andrew David McLachlan FRS[ 1] (25 January 1935 – 8 July 2022) was a British scientist who worked in the areas of theoretical chemistry and molecular biology .
McLachlan studied mathematics at Cambridge [ 2] before moving in to theoretical chemistry where his research was concerned with electron spin .[ 3] Following time at Cambridge and Caltech , he made the move in to molecular biology at the MRC LMB in 1967.[ 4] There he initially worked with Max Perutz on haemoglobin , before moving on to studying the sequence[ 5] and structure[ 6] of other protein types (such as muscle protein tropomyosin[ 7] [ 8] ). He retired in 2006.
McLachlan was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989.[ 2]
^ Stone, A. J.; Stewart, M.; Eisenberg, D. S.; Crowther, R. A. (2023). "Andrew David McLachlan. 25 January 1935—8 July 2022" . Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 75 . doi :10.1098/rsbm.2023.0014 . S2CID 260900565 .
^ a b Trinity College Cambridge (19 July 2022). "Tributes paid to Dr Andrew McLachlan" .
^ McLachlan, A.D. (1958). "Hyperconjugation in the electron resonance spectra of free radicals" . Molecular Physics . 1 (3): 233–240. Bibcode :1958MolPh...1..233M . doi :10.1080/00268975800100291 .
^ "LMB News: Andrew McLachlan (1935 – 2022)" . 15 July 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2023 .
^ McLachlan, A.D. (1971). "Tests for comparing related amino-acid sequences. Cytochrome c and cytochrome c551" . Journal of Molecular Biology . 61 (2): 409–424. doi :10.1016/0022-2836(71)90390-1 . PMID 5167087 .
^ McLachlan, A.D. (1972). "Repeating sequences and gene duplication in proteins" . Journal of Molecular Biology . 64 (2): 417–437. doi :10.1016/0022-2836(72)90508-6 . PMID 5023183 .
^ STEWART, MURRAY; MCLACHLAN, A. D. (1975). "Fourteen actin-binding sites on tropomyosin?" . Nature . 257 (5524): 331–333. Bibcode :1975Natur.257..331S . doi :10.1038/257331a0 . PMID 1161036 . S2CID 4222459 .
^ McLachlan, A.D.; Stewart, Murray; Smillie, L.B. (1975). "Sequence repeats in α-tropomyosin" . Journal of Molecular Biology . 98 (2): 281–291. doi :10.1016/S0022-2836(75)80118-5 . PMID 1195388 .