Michael Rossmann

Michael Rossmann
Born(1930-07-30)30 July 1930
Frankfurt, Germany
Died14 May 2019(2019-05-14) (aged 88)
Alma materUniversity of London
University of Glasgow
Known forcommon cold virus structure
Rossmann fold
molecular replacement
X-ray crystallography
AwardsLouisa Gross Horwitz Prize
Gregori Aminoff Prize
Ewald Prize
Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
Sackler International Prize in Biophysics
Scientific career
FieldsBiophysics
InstitutionsPurdue University
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Thesis "A Study of Some Organic Crystal Structures"
Academic advisorsJ. Monteath Robertson
William N. Lipscomb, Jr.
Max Perutz
Doctoral studentsPing Zhang

Michael G. Rossmann (30 July 1930[1] – 14 May 2019)[2] was a German-American physicist, microbiologist, and Hanley Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences at Purdue University who led a team of researchers to be the first to map the structure of a human common cold virus to an atomic level. He also discovered the Rossmann fold protein motif. His most well recognised contribution to structural biology is the development of a phasing technique named molecular replacement,[3] which has led to about three quarters of depositions in the Protein Data Bank.

  1. ^ "Rossmann, M. G. (Michael G.), 1930-2019". Purdue University. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  2. ^ "Renowned Purdue University scientist Michael Rossmann dies". Purdue University.
  3. ^ Rossmann MG, Blow DM (10 January 1962). "The detection of sub-units within the crystallographic asymmetric unit" (PDF). Acta Crystallographica. 15 (1): 24–31. Bibcode:1962AcCry..15...24R. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.319.3019. doi:10.1107/s0365110x62000067.

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