Author: Clark, Brian F.C.
Title: The crystallization and structural determination of tRNA
Reference Trends in Biochemical Sciences 26: 511-514, 2001
Year: 2001
Type: History - Reminiscences
Subject: The race to crystallize and determine the structure of tRNA by several research groups in USA and Europe
Keywords: Bart Barrell; David Blow; Bob Bock; Sydney Brenner; Dan Brown (Chem, Camb Univ); Ray Brown; George Brownlee; Jack Buchanan (MIT); Don Caspar (Boston); Brian Clark; Suzanne Cory; Bob Coulson; Fritz Cramer (Gottingen); Francis Crick; Bhupendra P. Doctor; John Finch; Jacques Fresco (Princeton); Arnold Hampel (Madison); Ieuan Harris; Robert Holley (Cornell Univ); Ken Holmes; Sung-Hou Kim (MIT); Aaron Klug; Diane Ladner; Kjeld Marcker; Heinrich Matthaei (NIH); Peter Moore (Yale); Shirley Morris; Marshall Nienberg (NIH); Hasko Paradies; Margaret Prentice; Daniela Rhodes; Alex Rich (MIT); Jon Robertus; Philip Rudland; Fred Sanger; Paul Sigler (Chicago); John Smith; Tom Steitz; Brian Wayman; Bill Whybrow; Hans Zachau (Munich)
Photographs: Large (~1 mm long), flat crystals of yeasttRNAPhe; Aaron Klug, John Finch & Brian Clark with skeletal model of 3D structure of yeast tRNAPheAuthor: Steitz, Joan A.
Title: Shaping research in gene expression: role of the Cambridge Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Reference Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 29:S91-S95, 1986
Year: 1986
Type: Historical - LMB History; History - Reminiscences
Subject: Brief history of LMB American Postdocs, past and present
Keywords: John Abelson; Jerry Adams (Harvard); Sidney Altman; Jonathan Beckwith; John Bernal (Cavendish); David Blow; Gary Borisy; Lawrence Bragg (Cavendish); Sydney Brenner; Mark Bretscher; George Brownlee; Richard Burgess; Mario Capecchi (Harvard); Brian Clark; Tony Cashmore; Suzanne Cory; Francis Crick; Jim Dahlberg; David De Rosier; Howard Dintzis; B. P. Doctor; Bill Dove; Syhman Dube; Harold Erickson; Malcolm Gefter; Wally Gilbert; Howard Goodman; Ieuan Harris; Brian Hartley; Richard Henderson; David Hirsh; Hugh Huxley; Jacob; John Kendrew; Jonathan King; Aaron Klug; Roger Kornberg; Charles Kurland; Art Landy; Harvey Lodish; Bill McClain; Kjeld Marcker; Mike Mathews; Brian Matthews; Meselson; Cesar Milstein; Peter Moore; Robin Munro; Masayasu Nomura; James Offengand; Mary Osborn; Linus Pauling (Caltech); Barbara Pearse; Max Perutz; Alex Rich; Hugh Robertson; Richard Russell; Joe Sambrook; Fred Sanger; Paul Sigler; Ethan Signer; John Smith; Jim Spudich; Joan Steitz; Thomas Steitz; Lubert Stryer; Susan Taylor; Paul Wassarman; Herman Watson; Jim Watson; Klaus Weber; Zinder (Rockefeller)
Photographs:Author: Dickerson, Richard E.
Title: A little ancient history
Reference Protein Science 1: 182-186, 1992
Year: 1992
Type: History - Reminiscences
Subject: Life and work in The Hut, Cavendish Laboratory
Keywords: Alver [Norway]; Leslie Barnett; Seymour Benzer; J. D. Bernal (Birkbeck); David Blow; Gerhard Bodo; Lawrence Bragg; Sydney Brenner; Francis Crick; Anne Cullis; John Daly (Leeds); Dick Dickerson; Howard Dintzis; Rosalind Franklin (London); Herb Gutowsky (Illinios); Roger Hart; John Kendrew; Bill Lipscomb (Minnesota); J. Monteith Robertson (Glasgow); Hilary Muirhead; Max Perutz; David Phillips (R.I.); Mary Pinkerton; Michael Rossmann; Larry Steinrauf; Bror Strandberg; Herman Watson; Jim Watson; Peter J. Wheatley (Leeds); Wiebenga; Maurice Wilkins
Photographs: Part of myoglobin/hemoglobin structure team outside the Hut in 1958; Bror Strandberg & Dick Dickerson returning from the EDSAC II computer centre with paper tape sorting board for myoglobinAuthor: Altman, Sidney
Title: The road to RNase P
Reference Nature Structural Biology 7: 827-828, October 2000
Year: 2000
Type: History - Reminiscences
Subject: Sidney Altman: personal recollection of how Altman came to study the enzyme RNase P
Keywords: Sidney Altman; Sydney Brenner; R.H. Burdon; Francis Crick; J. E. Darnell; Matt Meselson (Boston); Thomas R. Cech; David Hirsch; Aaron Klug; Hugh Robertson; John D. Smith;
Photographs:Author: Levitt, Michael
Title: The birth of computational structural biology
Reference Nature Structural Biology 8: 392-393, 2001
Year: 2001
Type: History - Reminiscences
Subject: Levitt's PhD studies on the use of computers in biology, and subsequent research
Keywords: Sydney Altman; Bart Barrell; Sydney Brenner; Axel Brunger; Cyrus Chothia; Francis Crick; Bruce Gelin; Arnold Hagler (Biosym); Tony Jack; Martin Karplus (Harvard); John Kendrew; Aaron Klug; Peter Kollmann (UCSF); Michael Levitt; Shneior Lifson (Weizmann, Israel); Andy McCammon; S.B. Needleman; Fred Sanger; Arieh Warshel (Weizmann, Israel); C.D. Wunsch
Photographs:Author: Perutz, M.F.
Title: The Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Reference Molecular Medicine 2: 659-662, 1996
Year: 1996
Type: History - Reminiscences; Historical - LMB History
Subject: History of the establishment of the LMB and its buildings
Keywords: Joseph Barcroft; Seymour Benzer; J.D. Bernal; W.L. Bragg; Sydney Brenner; D.A.G. Broad; Francis Crick; Paul Doty; Alan Fersht; Richard Henderson; Harold Himsorth (MRC); Hugh Huxley; Vernon Ingram; David Keilin (Molteno Institute); John Kendrew; Aaron Klug; Arthur Kornberg; Sir Edward Mellanby (MRC); Matthew Meselson; Cesar Milstein; Gisela Perutz; Max Perutz; Alex Rich; Ernest Rutherford (Cavendish Laboratory); Fred Sanger; Nigel Unwin; John Walker; Jim Watson; Greg Winter
Photographs: The LMB when it was opened in 1962Author: Crick, Francis
Title: The double helix: a personal view
Reference Nature 248: 766-769, 1974
Year: 1974
Type: History - Reminiscences
Subject: Francis Crick reviews the papers published 21 years ago on the structure of DNA and the reaction to them
Keywords: Avery; Seymour Benzer; J.D. Bernal; S. Bram; Sydney Brenner; Cavalieri; Chargaff; Barry Commoner; R. B. Corey; Francis Crick; Max Delbruck; Donohue; Paul Doty; Rosalind Franklin; Gosling; Hinshelwood; Arthur Kornberg; Fritz Lipmann; Marmur; Marshak; Medawar; Mendel; Matt Meselson; John Minton; R. C. Olby; Linus Pauling; A. Rich; Claud Rupert; Stahl; Gunther Stent; Stokes; Herbert Taylor; Jim Watson; Maurice Wilkins; Wilson
Photographs:Author: Perutz, M.F.
Title: Co-chairman's remarks: before the double helix
Reference Gene 135: 9-13, 1993
Year: 1993
Type: History - Reminiscences
Subject: In the 1930's and 1940's genes were universally believed to be made of protein. Kendrew, Crick and Perutz were interested mainly in solving the structure of proteins, but Watson made us think about the structure of genes which determine protein structure
Keywords: J. L. Alloway; Oswald Avery (Rockefeller Institute); J. D. Bernal (Cavendish laboratory); W.H.Bragg; McFarlane Burnett; Martha Chase; Winston Churchill; Francis Crick; Sir Henry Dale (Royal Society); J. N. Davidson; Henry Dawson; Delbruck; A. R. Dochez; Rene Dubos; Fred Griffith (Ministry of Health Laboratory); J.B.S. Haldane (Biochemistry, Cambridge); Michael Heidelberger; Alfred Hershey; Frederick Gowland Hopkins (Biochemistry, Cambridge); Rollin Hotchkiss; Hugh Huxley; Pascual Jordan; John Kendrew; Robert Koch (Berlin); Moses Kunitz; Aaron Levene (Rockefeller Institute); Colin MacLeod; Maclyn McCarty; Alfred Mirsky (Rockefeller Institute); Neufeld (Berlin); Northrop (Rockefeller Institute); Robert Olby; Linus Pauling; Max Perutz; Max Planck; Jim Watson
Photographs:Author: Henderson, Richard
Title: Paul Sigler: A structural biologist with passion
Reference Nature Structural Biology 7: 271-272, 2000
Year: 2000
Type: Obituary
Subject: Paul Sigler
Keywords: David Blow; Francis Crick; David Davies (NIH); Bob Diamond; Heidi Hamm (Chicago); Brian Hartley; Maclyn McCarty; Brian Matthews; Michael Rossmann; Paul Sigler
Photographs: Paul Sigler; Laboratory Christmas Pantomine, 1967Author: Gillespie, Fulton.
Title: Scientist wins £350,000 prize
Reference Cambridge Evening News, 16 January 1993
Year: 1993
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: Richard Henderson wins the Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine
Keywords: Sydney Brenner; Richard Henderson; Louis Jeantet; Hugh Pelham; Greg Winter
Photographs: Richard Henderson amongst some modelsAuthor: Cambridge Evening News
Title: Monster fun at theatre workshop
Reference Cambridge Evening News, 10 October 2001, p.2
Year: 2001
Type: PR
Subject: Picture of students with DNA model in MRC LMB Library
Keywords: DNA Model
Photographs: Students with DNA modelAuthor: Ribotargets
Title: Scientific Advisors
Reference http://www.ribotargets.com
Year: 2001, 5 October
Type: Biographical; Biotechnology Companies
Subject: Short biographical information
Keywords: Michael Gait; Brian Metcalfe (Kosnan Biosciences); Venki Ramakrishnan; Gabriele Varani; Eric Westhof (Institute Universitaire de France)
Photographs:Author: Dalton, Rex
Title: The History Man
Reference Nature 411: 732-733, 14 June 2001
Year: 2001
Type: Archives
Subject: A Californian book dealer has created a unique archive of molecular biology's achievements. But some historians are uneasy about such a valuable resource resting in private hands.
Keywords: Lord Bingham (HMC); Sydney Brenner; Marcel Caya (University of Quebec); Francis Crick; Max Delbruck; Rosalind Franklin; Aaron Klug; Vittorio Luzzati (CNRS); Brenda Maddox (London); Jeremy Norman (San Francisco); Max Perutz; John Randall; Al Seckel (California Institute of Technology); James Watson; Spencer Weart (American Institute of Physics); Maurice Wilkins
Photographs: Jeremy Norman; Proof of Watson and Crick's DNA paper; Aaron Klug; Watson & Crick with DNA modelAuthor: Grimmer, Dan
Title: Fruit fly research wins scientist a gold medal
Reference Cambridge Evening News, 15 October 2001
Year: 2001
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: Matthew Freeman wins EMBO Gold Medal
Keywords: Matthew Freeman
Photographs:Author: Secher, David S.
Title: Obituaries - Georges Kohler
Reference The Independent, 4 April 1995
Year: 1995
Type: Obituary
Subject: Georges Kohler
Keywords: Niels Jerne (Basle); Georges Kohler; Fritz Melchers (Basle); Cesar Milstein; Margaret Thatcher (PM); Max Planck; monoclonal antibodies; immunology
Photographs: Georges KohlerAuthor: Wilkie, Tom
Title: DNA researchers win Nobel chemistry prize
Reference The Independent, 14 October 1993
Year: 1993
Type: Nobel Prize
Subject: Michael Smith and Kary Mullis win 1993 Nobel prize for Chemistry
Keywords: Kary Mullis (California); Michael Smith; Greg Winter
Photographs:Author: Cambridge Evening News
Title: Prize work on genetics
Reference Cambridge Evening News, 15 October 1993
Year: 1993
Type: Nobel Prize
Subject: Michael Smith and Kary Mullis win 1993 Nobel prize for Chemistry
Keywords: Kary Mullis; Michael Smith
Photographs:Author: Mestel, Rosie
Title: Tools of the trade for gene engineers
Reference New Scientist, 23 October 1993
Year: 1993
Type: Nobel Prize
Subject: Michael Smith and Kary Mullis win 1993 Nobel prize for Chemistry
Keywords: Charles Craik (UCSA); Cynthia French (Biorad); Clyde Hutchison; Har Gobind Khorana (Univ British Columbia); Kary Mullis; Richard Roberts; Phillip Sharp; Michael Smith; Mickey Urdea (Chiron);
Photographs: Michael Smith; Kary MullisAuthor: Pearce Wright
Title: Michael Smith
Reference The Guardian, 10 October 2000
Year: 2000
Type: Obituary
Subject: Michael Smith, Nobel prizewinner for chemistry whose discoveries contributed to gene therapy
Keywords: Gobind Khorana (British Columbia); Sidney Law (Arnold School); Kary Mullis; Elizabeth Raines; Michael Smith
Photographs:Author: Milstein, Cesar
Title: With the benefit of hindsight
Reference Immunology Today 21: 359-364, August 2000
Year: 2000
Type: History - Reminiscences
Subject: The background to the development of a method to produce monoclonal antibodies, and their important practical applications, with reference to the issue of patents.
Keywords: Georges Kohler; Cesar Milstein; David Secher
Photographs: The first hybridomaAuthor: Hargittai, Istvan
Title: Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
Reference Chemical Intelligencer, April 1999
Year: 1999
Type: DNA - Structure as Icon
Subject: The most conspicuous icon of science in the past decades has been the double helix of the DNA structure
Keywords: Erwin Chargaff; W Cochran; Corey; H R Crane; Francis Crick; Einstein; Rosalind Franklin; Bror Marklund (Sculpturer); Linus Pauling; V Vand; James Watson
Photographs: Crick Helix in Cambridge; The Uppsala double helixAuthor: Hargittai, Istvan
Title: Interview: Federick Sanger
Reference Chemical Intelligencer, April 1999, pp. 6-11
Year: 1999
Type: History - Reminiscences; Biographical
Subject: Interview with Frederick Sanger about his life and work
Keywords: Paul Berg; George Brownlee; A. C. Chibnall(Biochemistry Dept, Cambridge); Walter Gilbert (Harvard); Bob Holley; A. J. P. Martin; Albert Neuberger; Frederick Sanger; Dick Sheppard (C of E Priest); R. L. M. Synge; Hans Tuppy
Photographs: Frederick Sanger on the day of the interview; Frederick Sanger, age 11, with his sister & brother; The Sangers' Wedding, 1940; Rodney R. Porter & Fred Sanger outside the Biochemistry Lab, 1945; Fred Sanger in the Biochemistry Lab, late 1950's; The Second Nobel Prize, 1980.Author: Hargittai, Istvan
Title: Interview: Sidney Altman
Reference Chemical Intelligencer, April 1999, pp.12-16
Year: 1999
Type: History - Reminiscences; Biographical
Subject: Interview with Sidney Altman about his life and work
Keywords: Sidney Altman; Sydney Brenner; Thomas Cech (Univ of Colorado); Francis Crick; George Gamow (Colorado); K Gardiner (Yale); Walter Gilbert; Cecilia Guerier-Takada (Yale); Hugh Huxley; Kendrew; Aaron Klug; Leonard Lerman; Meselson (Harvard); Cesar Milstein; N. Pace (Yale); Max Perutz; Fred Sanger; Ben Stark (Yale)
Photographs: Sidney Altman during the interviewAuthor: Hargittai, Istvan
Title: Interview: Walter Gilbert
Reference Chemical Intelligencer, April 1999, pp.17-23
Year: 1999
Type: History - Reminiscences; Biographical
Subject: Interview with Walter Gilbert about his life and work
Keywords: Paul Berg (Stanford Univerity); Howard Dintzis; Walter Gilbert; Sheldon Glashow (Harvard); Jacob (France); Nancy Maizels; Allen Maxam; Andrei Mirzabekov; Monod (France); Benno Muller-Hill (Harvard); Nirenberg; Abdus Salam (Cambridge University); Frederick Sanger; Julian Schwinger (Harvard); Jim Watson
Photographs: Walter Gilbert during the interviewAuthor: Cambridge Evening News
Title: Royal Prize
Reference Cambridge Evening News, 15 February 1992
Year: 1992
Type: Awards &Prizes
Subject: Dr Sydney Brenner awarded the King Faisal International Prize
Keywords: Sydney Brenner; King Faisal
Photographs:
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