Open AccessEarly days in drug discovery by crystallography – personal recollections
Author(s) -
Colman Peter M.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
acta crystallographica section a
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1600-5724
pISSN - 0108-7673
DOI - 10.1107/s0108767312050441
Subject(s) - drug discovery , philosophy , nanotechnology , chemistry , materials science , biochemistry
The influences of Lawrence Bragg and Max Perutz are evident in the contemporary emphasis on `structural enablement' in drug discovery. On this occasion of the centenary of Bragg's equation, his role in supporting the earliest structural studies of biological materials at the Cavendish Laboratory is remembered. The 1962 Nobel Prizes for the structures of DNA and proteins marked the golden anniversary of the von Laue and Bragg discoveries.