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Louise Johnson

British biochemist and protein crystallographer (1940-2012) · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Died at 71

Dame Louise Napier Johnson,, was a British biochemist and protein crystallographer. She was David Phillips Professor of Molecular Biophysics at the University of Oxford from 1990 to 2007, and later an emeritus professor. She was married to Pakistani nuclear physicist and a Nobel Prize-laureate Abdus Salam.

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Portland Press Excellence in Science Award2009
Fellow of the Royal Society
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Science
Honorary Doctor of the University of Bath
The Dorothy Hodgkin Prize

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United Kingdom
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1940 to 2012 · aged 71