Michael N. G. James

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Michael James

Born
Michael Norman George James

(1940-05-16)May 16, 1940 [1]
Vancouver [2]
DiedJuly 24, 2023(2023-07-24) (aged 83) [2]
Edmonton
Education
AwardsOfficer of the Order of Canada (2023)
Fellow of the Royal Society (1989)
Scientific career
Institutions University of Alberta
Thesis X-ray crystallographic studies of some antibiotic peptides  (1966)
Doctoral advisor Dorothy Hodgkin [4]
Doctoral students
Website xray.biochem.ualberta.ca

Michael Norman George James OC FRS FRSC (born 1940) [1] (died 2023) [2] was Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Alberta. [8] [9] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1989 for "substantial contributions to the improvement of natural knowledge". [10] He was appointed to the Order of Canada in June 2023, with the rank of Officer. He lived in Edmonton. [11]

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  2. 1 2 3 "In Memoriam: Dr. Michael N. G. James, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry". Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry News. August 10, 2023. Retrieved October 18, 2023.
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  4. "Chemistry Tree - Michael N.G. James Family Tree". academictree.org.
  5. Read, Randy John (1986). X-ray crystallographic studies on serine proteinases and their protein inhibitors (PhD thesis). University of Alberta. doi:10.7939/R33776175. hdl:10402/era.3098. ProQuest   250072156.
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  7. Strynadka, N C J; James, M N G (1989). "Crystal Structures of the Helix-Loop-Helix Calcium-Binding Proteins". Annual Review of Biochemistry. 58 (1): 951–999. doi:10.1146/annurev.bi.58.070189.004511. ISSN   0066-4154. PMID   2673026.
  8. Michael N. G. James publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  9. "James Lab". xray.biochem.ualberta.ca.
  10. Anon (2015). "Royal Society Elections". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-09-06.
  11. "Order of Canada appointees – June 2023". The Governor General of Canada. June 30, 2023. Retrieved June 30, 2023.