Guy Dodson
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| Born | George Guy Dodson 13 January 1937 Palmerston North, New Zealand |
| Died | 24 December 2012 (aged 75) York, England |
| Alma mater | University of New Zealand (BSc, PhD) |
| Spouse | Eleanor Dodson[1] |
| Children | 4[1] |
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| Fields | X-ray crystallography |
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George Guy Dodson
FMedSci (13 January 1937 – 24 December 2012), was a British biochemist who specialised in protein crystallography at the University of York.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
Education
Dodson graduated from the University of New Zealand where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. His doctoral thesis, completed in 1961, was titled An X-ray analysis of an alkaloid and some investigation into nickel bis-salicylaldahyde triethylene tetramine.[10]
Career
Dodson did
postdoctoral research with Dorothy Hodgkin at the University of Oxford.[11][12][13][14] He devised along with Hodgkin, very intricate experimental, crystallographic and computer techniques that led to the final solution of the structure of insulin
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Dodson was head of the structural biology laboratories at the University of York and National Institute for Medical Research, London. During his career he collaborated with many scientists[9] including Dale Wigley, Gideon Davies,[4] Andrzej Brzozowski,[15] Leo Brady[16] and Max Perutz.[17]
Awards and honours
Dodson was elected a
haemoglobin as seen in the partially liganded T alpha oxy beta deoxy, T alpha met beta met and T alpha deoxy beta deoxy human haemoglobins, crystallised from polyethyleneglycol. It is characteristic of him that he has created a laboratory to which protein crystals are brought from all over the world and their structures solved.[19]
Dodson was also a Foreign Member of the
Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci)
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He was a recipient of the RSC Structural Chemistry Award in 1991.
Personal life
Dodson was married to the scientist Eleanor Dodson with whom he had four children.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "DODSON, Prof. Eleanor Joy". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Professor Guy Dodson, Department of Chemistry, University of York, archived from the original on 2 January 2013, retrieved 29 December 2012.
- PMC 3604789.
- ^ S2CID 4373125.
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- ^ Written evidence submitted by Professor Guy Dodson, FRS, FMS, ForMemINSA, Parliament of the United Kingdom
- ^ a b Guy Dodson's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- hdl:2292/56154.
- PMID 4946130.
- S2CID 4158731.
- PMID 5941965.
- S2CID 61764553.
- S2CID 4343187.
- S2CID 4308111.
- PMID 9646860.
- S2CID 212737449.
- ^ "EC/1994/13:Dodson, George Guy". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 4 April 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
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