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SUMMARY:The Origin of Molecular Biology - Sir John Meurig Thomas\, Peterho
 use\, Cambridge
DTSTART:20171010T193000Z
DTEND:20171010T203000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Sophie Jackson
DESCRIPTION:Modern molecular biology encompasses a large variety of discip
 lines including genetics\, haematology\, virology\, structural and develop
 mental biology\, medicine\, neuroscience\, physiology and cancer research.
  But it all started in the hands of physicists and chemists\, whom were in
 terested in crystallography\, and began in the 1920s\, investigate the str
 ucture of proteins\, hormones and vitamins.\nThis non-technical account of
  the origins of the subjects traces (up until the mid 1960s) the key advan
 ces made mainly in the Department of Physics in Munich\, Leeds and Cambrid
 ge\, in the Davy faraday Laboratory at the Royal Institution in London\, t
 he Department of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in Pa
 sadena\, and in the Chemical Crystallography Unit in Oxford. The personali
 ties\, commitments\, and contributions of the major individuals that were 
 the principal founders of current day Molecular Biology will be discussed.
LOCATION:Theatre\, Peterhouse
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