George Guy Dodson FRS FMedSci (13 January 1937 – 24 December 2012), was a British biochemist who specialised in protein crystallography at the

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Education

Dodson graduated from the

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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''.

Career

Dodson did postdoctoral research with

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at the

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. He devised along with Hodgkin, very intricate experimental, crystallographic and computer techniques that led to the final solution of the structure of

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. Dodson was head of the structural biology laboratories at the

and National Institute for Medical Research, London. During his career he collaborated with many scientists including Dale Wigley, Gideon Davies, Andrzej Brzozowski, Leo Brady and

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Awards and honours

Dodson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1994. His nomination reads Dodson was also a Foreign Member of the Indian National Science Academy (ForMemINSA) and the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci). He was a recipient of the

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Structural Chemistry Award in 1991.

Personal life

Dodson was married to the scientist Eleanor Dodson with whom he had four children.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dodson, Guy 1937 births 2012 deaths British crystallographers Academics of the University of York Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) New Zealand Fellows of the Royal Society Foreign Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy National Institute for Medical Research faculty People from Palmerston North