Architects of Structural Biology

Sir John Meurig Thomas is Former Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain and the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory, London, and former Master of Peterhouse. He was Head of the Department of Physical Chemistry and Professorial Fellow of King's College, University of Cambridge. John Meurig Thomas was knighted for services to chemistry and the popularisation of science. His biography of Michael Faraday has been translated into Japanese, Chinese and Italian. He has received numerous international and national awards for his work, including the Royal Medal of the Royal Society for his contributions to green chemistry and clean technology. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, and of the Swedish and Russian Academies of Sciences.

• 1: Max Perutz, John Kendrew, Peterhouse and the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory 2: The Birth and Initial Exploitation of X-ray Diffraction 3: W. H. Bragg and his Creation of a World-Famous Centre for X-ray Crystallography at the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory 4: A Dispute Between the Cavendish and Caltech: The Emergence and Ubiquity of the Alpha Helix 5: Perutz and Kendrew: The Heroic Era of Structural Molecular Biology 6: Sir Lawrence Bragg at the RI (1953-1966) and the Determination of the First Three-Dimensional Structure of an Enzyme at the DFRL (1965) 7: Lawrence Bragg and Linus Pauling: Comparisons and Rivalries 8: Biographical Sketches 9: Contributions of Cambridge College Life to Structural Biology: Peterhouse as an Exemplar 10: The Summing Up: The Astonishing Successes of the LMB, and the Dawn of a New Structural Biological Era

An excellent book for all interested in the history of science.