Michael Rossmann | |
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| Born | 30 July 1930 Frankfurt, Germany |
| Died | 14 May 2019 (aged 88) West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of London University of Glasgow |
| Known for | common cold virus structure Rossmann fold molecular replacement X-ray crystallography |
| Awards | Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize Gregori Aminoff Prize Ewald Prize Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize Sackler International Prize in Biophysics |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biophysics |
| Institutions | Purdue University MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology |
| Thesis | "A Study of Some Organic Crystal Structures" |
| Academic advisors | J. Monteath Robertson William N. Lipscomb, Jr. Max Perutz |
| Doctoral students | Ping Zhang |
Michael G. Rossmann (30 July 1930[1] – 14 May 2019)[2] was a German-American physicist, microbiologist, and Hanley Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences at Purdue University who led a team of researchers to be the first to map the structure of a human common cold virus to an atomic level. He also discovered the Rossmann fold protein motif. His most well recognised contribution to structural biology is the development of a phasing technique named molecular replacement,[3] which has led to about three quarters of depositions in the Protein Data Bank.