John Thomas Finch
Crystallographer and electron microscopist
About John Thomas Finch
Lived 1930 – 2017 (aged 87). John Thomas Finch was a biophysicist.
John Finch FRS (28 February 1930 – 5 December 2017) was a British X-ray crystallographer and electron microscopist. After working and receiving a PhD at Birkbeck College London, where he was hired by Rosalind Franklin, he worked at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge from 1962 on biological structures and macromolecules, including of nucleosomes and of viruses such as tobacco mosaic virus.
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Who was John Thomas Finch?
Crystallographer and electron microscopist (1930-2017)
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John Thomas Finch was born on 28 February 1930.
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John Thomas Finch died on 5 December 2017.
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John Thomas Finch was a biophysicist.
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