David Mervyn Blow

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David Mervyn Blow
Haemoglobin
X-ray crystallography
Spouse
Mavis Sears
​
(m. 1955)​
Biophysicist
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
National Institutes of Health
Imperial College London
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
ThesisX-ray analysis of haemoglobin : determination of phase angles by isomorphous substitution (1958)
Doctoral advisorMax Perutz[1]
Other academic advisorsAlexander Rich[1]
Doctoral students
Other notable studentsThomas A. Steitz
Brian Matthews[1]

David Mervyn Blow

pharmaceutical industry.[9]

Early life and education

Blow was born in

haemoglobin supervised by Max Perutz at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB).[10][11]

Career and research

Following graduation from Cambridge, Blow spent two years at the

Fulbright Foundation[5]

In 1954, he met

haemoglobin.[13] Blow was appointed professor of biophysics at Imperial College London in 1977. His doctoral students include Richard Henderson,[2][3] Paul Sigler,[1] and Alice Vrielink.[14]

Awards and honours

Blow was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1972. He was awarded the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 1987.[5]

Personal life

Blow married Mavis Sears in 1955, and they had two children, a son Julian and a daughter Elizabeth.[5][8] He died of lung cancer at the age of 72, in Appledore, Torridge (near Bideford), Devon.[7][8]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "David Blow Academic Genealogy". AcademicTree.org.
  2. ^
    EThOS uk.bl.ethos.458866
    .
  3. ^ a b Al-Khalili, Jim (2018). "Richard Henderson zooms in on the molecules of life". BBC.
  4. ^ Vrielink, Alice (3 July 2014). "David Blow (1931-2004) - A Remberance" (PDF). American Crystallographic Association. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 July 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  5. ^
    doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U7898. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  6. S2CID 56616438
    .
  7. ^ a b Pearce, Jeremy (19 July 2007). "David Blow, 72; Briton Developed Method to Study Proteins". The New York Times.
  8. ^ a b c Rossmann, Michael (25 June 2004). "David Blow Pioneering scientist in protein crystallography". The Guardian.
  9. doi:10.1063/1.1897573
    .
  10. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.596730. Archived from the original
    on 16 February 2018. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  11. S2CID 56616438
    .
  12. S2CID 73986989
    .
  13. ISSN 0365-110X
    .
  14. ^ Vrielink, Alice (3 July 2014). "David Blow (1931-2004) - A Remberance" (PDF). American Crystallographic Association. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 July 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2021.


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