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SUMMARY:Bragg\, Perutz and Kendrew: The Origins of Molecular Biology - Sir
  John Meurig Thomas ( University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Eleanor Sheekey
DESCRIPTION:Modern molecular biology encompasses a large variety of discip
 lines including\ngenetics\, haematology\, virology\, structural and develo
 pmental biology\,\nmedicine\, neuroscience\, physiology and cancer researc
 h. But it all started in\nthe hands of physicists and chemists all of whom
  were interested in\ncrystallography and began\, in the 1920s\, to investi
 gate the structure of\nproteins\, hormones and vitamins.\n\nThis non-techn
 ical account of the origins of the subject traces (up until the\nmid-1960s
 ) the key advances made mainly in the Departments of Physics in\nMunich\, 
 Leeds and Cambridge\, in the Davy Faraday Laboratory of the Royal\nInstitu
 tion in London\, the Department of Chemistry in the California Institute\n
 of Technology in Pasadena and in the Chemical Crystallography Unit in Oxfo
 rd.\nThe personalities\, commitments and contributions of the major indivi
 duals\nthat were the principal founders of current day Molecular Biology w
 ill be\ndiscussed.
LOCATION:The Theatre\, Peterhouse
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