About Johan Jansonius
Lived 1932 – 2022 (aged 89–90). Johan Jansonius was a chemist.
Johan Nomdo Jansonius (1932 – 2 January 2022) was a Dutch chemist and structural biologist. He spent his career at the Biozentrum University of Basel where he was professor of structural biology between 1973 and 1998.
Life Jansonius was born in the Netherlands in 1932. He studied chemistry. He joined the newly founded Biozentrum University of Basel, of which he later served as chair from 1989 to 1991.
He was one of the founders of the field of crystallography in Switzerland. Apart from his work in the field of protein crystallography he performed research on enzymes related to metabolism. Jansonius looked into the vitamin B6 dependent enzymes and their structure-function relationship. He clarified the structure of five of those enzymes. Jansonius also worked on thermophilic enzymes. He died on 2 February 2022 in Therwil, Switzerland, aged 89.
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Dutch structural biologist (1932–2022)
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