A Nobel Fellow on Every Floor: A History of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology

by John Finch

In Cambridge in the 1950s, several research groups funded by the Medical Research Council were producing exciting results. In the Biochemistry Department, Sanger determined the amino acid sequence of insulin, and was awarded a Nobel Prize for this in 1958. At the Cavendish Laboratory, in the MRC Unit for the Study of the Molecular Structure of Biological Systems, Watson and Crick solved the structure of DNA, and Perutz and Kendrew produced the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840469404
• ISBN13: 9781840469400
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Icon Books
• Length: 381 Pages