crystallographer
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“This should clear up any questions regarding CSH,” says co-author Russell Hemley, an x-ray crystallographer at the University of Illinois, Chicago, who helped determine the material’s structure.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 8, 2023
X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin had a central role in discovering the structure of DNA.
From Scientific American • Sep. 18, 2021
He joined the lab of ‘The Colonel’ William Lipscomb, and became a protein crystallographer, helping to solve the structure of the versatile enzyme carboxypeptidase A.
From Nature • Oct. 29, 2018
Booth started as a crystallographer at Birkbeck College and turned to automatic calculating machines to help do the complex maths involved in this work.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2016
As a result, none of my teachers had ever considered the possibility that I might do postdoctoral research with an X-ray crystallographer.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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