Michael James | |
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Born | Michael Norman George James May 16, 1940 [1] Vancouver [2] |
Died | July 24, 2023 83) [2] Edmonton | (aged
Education |
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Awards | Officer 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 |
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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