John Thomas Finch

John Finch FRS (28 February 1930 – 5 December 2017)[1] was a British X-ray crystallographer and electron microscopist.[2] After working and receiving a PhD at Birkbeck College London, where he was hired by Rosalind Franklin, he worked at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge from 1962 on biological structures and macromolecules, including of nucleosomes and of viruses such as tobacco mosaic virus.[2]

John Thomas Finch
Born28 February 1930 Edit this on Wikidata
Died5 December 2017 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 87)
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References
  1. Crowther, R. A.; Holmes, K. C. (2019). "John Thomas Finch. 28 February 1930—5 December 2017". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 66: 183–199. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2018.0028. S2CID 81368553.
  2. "John Finch (1930 – 2017)". Laboratory of Molecular Biology. 7 December 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2020.


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