While neither of these references detail the "development" of protein crystallography, they are excellent stories of its birth:
1.) A book written by Richard Dickerson, "Present at the flood" 2.) A recent review in JMB by Strandberg, Dickerson, and Rossmann: "50 years of Protein Structure Analysis" We are lucky to have Richard Dickerson as emeritus faculty here at UCLA, because he cares very much for the history of science. Although I do not have a personal relationship with him, I always enjoy the opportunity to hear him talk about the "beginnings." A couple years ago, we had a symposium to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first protein structures with guest speakers including Richard Dickerson, David Davies, Brian Matthews, Michael Rossmann, and Bob Stroud. Surprisingly, I cannot google my way to a recording of the lectures. I'm sure someone got a video or at least an audio recording, so if I can find it I will post a link. Mike T ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Pflugrath" <jim.pflugr...@rigaku.com> To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 12:31:56 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Fun Question - Is multiple isomorphous replacement an obsolete technique? And for more Personal Reflections, one may wish to take a gander at the Rigaku Webinar series with presentations by Brian Matthews and Michael G. Rossmann. Jim From: CCP4 bulletin board [CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] on behalf of Carter, Charlie [car...@med.unc.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 2:05 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Fun Question - Is multiple isomorphous replacement an obsolete technique? Begin forwarded message: Date: June 6, 2012 3:05:16 PM EDT To: aaleshin < aales...@burnham.org > Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Fun Question - Is multiple isomorphous replacement an obsolete technique? There are four such papers in Methods in Enzymology, Vols 368 and 374: David Blow: How Bijvoet Made the Difference: The Growing Power of Anomalous Scattering V. 374, pp. 3-22 Brian Matthews: Transformations in Structural Biology: A Personal View V. 368 pp. 3-10 Michael Rossmann: Origins V. 368, pp. 11-21 Ulrich W. Arndt: Personal X-ray Reflections V. 368, pp. 21-45 These reminiscences are there entirely because my co-Editor Bob Sweet felt exactly the same way Alex does. Charlie On Jun 6, 2012, at 2:12 PM, aaleshin wrote: I wonder if anyone attempted to write a historic book on development of crystallography. That generation of crystallographers is leaving this world and soon nobody will be able to say how the protein and non-protein structures were solved in those days. Alex ... -- Michael C. Thompson Graduate Student Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Division Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry University of California, Los Angeles mi...@chem.ucla.edu
