David W. Green (biochemist)

This article is about the English crystallographer and biochemist. For the American biochemist, see David E. Green. For the cognitive scientist, see David W. Green (psychologist).

David W. Green
Died	1976
Education	University of Cambridge (Ph.D.)
Occupation	Crystallographer
Employer	University of Edinburgh

David W. Green ( - 1976) was a crystallographer at the Medical Research Council Unit for the Study of the Molecular Structure of Biological Systems, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

David W. Green was a graduate student in the laboratory of Max Perutz at the University of Cambridge from 1952 to 1955 and obtained a Ph.D. ^{[1] [2]} He is known for demonstrating the first use of isomorphous replacement to solve the phase problem in X-ray crystallography. ^[3]

After completing his Ph.D., Green moved to the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory at The Royal Institution in autumn 1955. ^[4]

He was recruited by Linus Pauling ^[5] but ultimately moved to MIT to work with Alexander Rich. ^[6] With Rich, Green solved the structure of N-methyluracil. ^[7] After his postdoctoral work, he returned to the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory at The Royal Institution in London, England to continue his crystallographic research. ^[8] Later he moved to the Department of Physics at the University of Edinburgh. ^[9] In Edinburgh, Green was a senior lecturer and ran a group in solid state physics. ^[10]

Green died in 1976. ^[10]

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7. Green, D. W.; Mathews, F. S.; Rich, A. (November 1962). "The crystal and molecular structure of N-methyluracil". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 237 (11): 3573–3575. doi: 10.1016/S0021-9258(19)70860-6 . ISSN   0021-9258. PMID   13950062.
8. Aschaffenburg, R.; Green, D. W.; Simmons, R. M. (1965-08-01). "Crystal forms of β-lactoglobulin" . Journal of Molecular Biology. 13 (1): 194–201. doi:10.1016/S0022-2836(65)80089-4. ISSN   0022-2836. PMID   5859035.
9. Sawyer, L.; Green, D. W. (1979-07-25). "The reaction of cow β-lactoglobulin with tetracyanoaurate(III)". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure. 579 (1): 234–239. doi:10.1016/0005-2795(79)90102-8. ISSN   0005-2795. PMID   37917.
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