Dame Louise Johnson | |
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| Born | Louise Napier Johnson 26 September 1940 |
| Died | 25 September 2012 (aged 71) |
| Education | Wimbledon High School for Girls |
| Alma mater | University College London (BSc, PhD) |
| Known for | Discovering the structure of lysozyme and N-Acetylglucosamine[4] |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Thesis | An X-ray crystallographic study of N-acetylglucosamine and its relation to lysozyme. (1965) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Chilton Phillips[1] |
| Other academic advisors | Frederic M. Richards[2] |
| Doctoral students | David Barford Jenny Martin[citation needed] David J. Owen[3] |
| Other notable students | Janos Hajdu |
Dame Louise Napier Johnson, DBE FRS (26 September 1940 – 25 September 2012[5]), was a British biochemist and protein crystallographer. She was David Phillips Professor of Molecular Biophysics at the University of Oxford from 1990 to 2007, and later an emeritus professor.[6] She was married to Pakistani nuclear physicist and a Nobel Prize-laureate Abdus Salam.
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- ^ Owen, David Jonathan (1994). Molecular studies on phosphorylase kinase. solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 55697925. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.240633.
- ^ Johnson, L. N.; Phillips, D. C. (1964). "Crystal Structure of N-Acetylglucosamine". Nature. 202 (4932): 588. Bibcode:1964Natur.202..588J. doi:10.1038/202588a0. PMID 14195059. S2CID 4277260.
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