Richard E. Dickerson (born 1931) is an American biochemist. He was the first to carry out a single-crystal structure analysis of B-DNA, with what has become known as the "Dickerson dodecamer": C-G-C-G-A-A-T-T-C-G-C-G. At

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he has continued his investigations of the structures of A- and B-DNA, and of complexes between DNA and drugs or proteins. He was elected to the

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and

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in 1985. During the academic year 1997-1998, Dickerson was the Newton-Abraham Visiting Professor in Medical, Biological and Chemical Science at Lincoln College and the Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics at

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. Since 2013, Dickerson has been listed on the Advisory Council of the

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Education

* B.S. in chemistry from

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in 1953.Dickerson, Richard E., UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry
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, studying the structures of boron hydrides under the direction of future Nobel Laureate Professor William N. Lipscomb. * Postdoc for two years at the

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with John C. Kendrew.

Appointments and positions held

* Professor emeritus, department of chemistry and biochemistry, UCLA, US

References

External links

Dickerson research lab at UCLA
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