Olga Kennard | |
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 Kennard on the 50th anniversary of the CCDC in 2015 | |
| Born | Olga Weisz 23 March 1924 |
| Died | (aged 98) |
| Alma mater | Newnham College, Cambridge |
| Known for | Crystallography of organic molecules |
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| Children | 2 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Crystallography |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre |
Olga Kennard, Lady Burgen (née Weisz; 23 March 1924 – 1 March 2023) was a Hungarian-born British scientist who specialised in crystallography. She was the founder of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre.
Kennard's research focused on determining the structures of organic molecules, including the first three-dimensional structure of adenosine triphosphate[1] and particularly the different forms of DNA.[2]
Together with JD Bernal she believed in the value of collating scientific data in a central archive, this began the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD), collating crystal structures of mainly organic molecules. Kennard was also involved, at CSD, in the founding of the Protein Data Bank, and of the EMBL nucleotide sequence data library (later, European Nucleotide Archive).[3]
- ^ Kennard, Olga; Isaacs, N. W.; Coppola, J. C.; Kirby, A. J.; Warren, Stuart; Motherwell, W. D. S.; Watson, D. G.; Wampler, D. L.; Chenery, D. H.; Larson, A. C.; Kerr, K. ANN; Sanseverino, L. Riva DI (1970). "Three dimensional structure of adenosine triphosphate". Nature. 225 (5230): 333–336. Bibcode:1970Natur.225..333K. doi:10.1038/225333a0. PMID 5410514. S2CID 33501935.
- ^ Kennard, O; Hunter, WN (1989). "Oligonucleotide structure: a decade of results from single crystal X-ray diffraction studies". Q Rev Biophys. 22 (3): 327–79. doi:10.1017/s0033583500002997. PMID 2695962. S2CID 8052605.
- ^ Kneale, G. G. (1984). "The EMBL nucleotide sequence data library" (PDF). Biochem Soc Trans. 12 (6): 1011–1014. doi:10.1042/bst0121011. PMID 6530028. S2CID 730696. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 February 2019.