Isidor Fankuchen
Isidor Fankuchen · Science & Medicine
Crystallographer who advanced X-ray studies of biological molecules including viruses
1904, New York City, United States — 1964, Brooklyn, New York, United States
United States · United Kingdom
Isidor Fankuchen is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Crystallographer who advanced X-ray studies of biological molecules including viruses
Fankuchen was an American X-ray crystallographer who, working in England with J. D. Bernal, helped pioneer the crystallographic study of biological macromolecules, including early X-ray work on tobacco mosaic virus. He later built a leading crystallography school at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and trained a generation of structural scientists. He was born into a Jewish family in New York City.
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Crystallographer who advanced X-ray studies of biological molecules including viruses
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
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