Donald Caspar
Donald L. D. Caspar | |
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| Born | January 8, 1927 |
| Died | November 27, 2021 (aged 94) Tallahassee, Florida |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Don Caspar |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | Cornell University (BA) Yale University (PhD) |
| Awards | Fellow of the Biophysical Society Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Structural biology |
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology Florida State University Brandeis University Birkbeck, University of London King's College London |
| Thesis | The Radial Structure of Tobacco Mosaic Virus (1955) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ernest C. Pollard |
| Other academic advisors | Max Delbrück Rosalind Franklin |
| Doctoral students | Stephen C. Harrison[1] |
| Other notable students | Kenneth Holmes (postdoctoral researcher)[1] |
| Website | Florida State University page |
Donald L. D. Caspar (January 8, 1927 - November 27, 2021) was an American
-ray, neutron and electron diffraction
, and protein plasticity.
Caspar completed his BA in physics from
Birkbeck College in London. Their meeting was fruitful both personally and professionally. He remained one of Franklin's closest friends during her brief lifetime. In 1956 he and Franklin published individual but complementary papers in the March 10 issue of Nature, together showing that TMV was a hollow rod, rather than a solid structure as generally believed. They also demonstrated that RNA in TMV was wound along the inner surface of the hollow virus.[8][9] He was not a particularly enthusiastic writer; as a result, Franklin had to write every word of his paper.[10]
At Birkbeck one of his colleagues was
protein–protein interactions that crystallography has elucidated. Quasi-equivalence continues to be an important component of the philosophical basis for how we think about macromolecular assemblies.[5]
In 1994 Caspar received the
National Academy of Sciences in 1994.[14] He received the first Fellow of the Biophysical Society Award in 2000.[15]
References
- ^ PMID 17848543.
- ^ "Donald L.D Caspar". Dignity Memorial. Retrieved December 3, 2021.
- ^ a b "Don Caspar". Oral History Collection. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
- ^ a b "Donald Caspar". World Science Festival. Science Festival Foundation. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
- ^ a b "Donald L. D. Caspar". Florida State University.
- ^ "Donald L. D. Caspar". Brandeis University. Archived from the original on January 21, 2015. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
- ^ "Donald L. D. Caspar". Academic Tree. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
- S2CID 4167638.
- S2CID 30394190.
- ISBN 0-00-655211-0.
- ^ "Aaron Klug – Biographical". Nobel Media. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
- PMID 14019094.
- ^ "Donald L. D. Caspar". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on January 21, 2015. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
- ^ "Donald L. D. Caspar". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
- ^ "Fellow of the Biophysical Society Award". Biophysical Society. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
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