Louise Johnson

Dame Louise Johnson
Born
Louise Napier Johnson

(1940-09-26)26 September 1940
Died25 September 2012(2012-09-25) (aged 71)
EducationWimbledon High School for Girls
Alma materUniversity College London (BSc, PhD)
Known forDiscovering the structure of lysozyme and N-Acetylglucosamine[4]
Spouse
(m. 1968; died 1996)
Children2
AwardsDame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
ThesisAn X-ray crystallographic study of N-acetylglucosamine and its relation to lysozyme. (1965)
Doctoral advisorDavid Chilton Phillips[1]
Other academic advisorsFrederic M. Richards[2]
Doctoral studentsDavid Barford
Jenny Martin[citation needed]
David J. Owen[3]
Other notable studentsJanos 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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  2. ^ "Fred Richards on Academic Tree".
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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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  6. ^ Sansom, M. (2012). "Louise Johnson (1940–2012)". Nature. 490 (7421): 488. Bibcode:2012Natur.490..488S. doi:10.1038/490488a. PMID 23099399.