Guy Dodson

Guy Dodson
Guy Dodson
Born George Guy Dodson
(1937-01-13)13 January 1937
Palmerston North, New Zealand
Died 24 December 2012(2012-12-24) (aged 75)
York, UK
Alma mater University of New Zealand (BSc, PhD)
Spouse(s) Eleanor Dodson[1]
Children four[1]
Awards
Scientific career
Fields X-ray crystallography
Institutions
Influences Dorothy Hodgkin
Website

(George) Guy Dodson FRS FMedSci (13 January 1937 – 24 December 2012), was a biochemist who specialised in protein crystallography at the University of York.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

Education

Dodson graduated from the University of New Zealand where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.

Career

Dodson did postdoctoral research with Dorothy Hodgkin at the University of Oxford.[10][11][12][13] He devised along with Hodgkin, very intricate experimental, crystallographic and computer techniques that led to the final solution of the structure of insulin. Dodson was head of the structural biology laboratories at the University of York and National Institute for Medical Research, London. During his career he collaborated with many scientists[9] including Dale Wigley, Gideon Davies,[4] Andrzej Brzozowski,[14] Leo Brady[15] and Max Perutz.[16]

Awards and honours

Dodson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1994. His nomination reads

Dodson was also a Foreign Member of the Indian National Science Academy (ForMemINSA) and the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci).

Personal life

Dodson was married to the scientist Eleanor Dodson with whom he had four children.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 DODSON, Prof. Eleanor Joy. ukwhoswho.com. Who's Who. 2014 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
  2. ↑ Professor Guy Dodson, Department of Chemistry, University of York, retrieved 2012-12-29 .
  3. ↑ De Meyts, P. (2013). "In Memoriam: Guy Dodson (1937–2012)". Frontiers in Endocrinology. 4. doi:10.3389/fendo.2013.00033.
  4. 1 2 Wigley, D.B.; Davies, G.J.; Dodson, E.J.; Maxwell, A; Dodson, G (1991). "Crystal structure of an N-terminal fragment of the DNA gyrase B protein". Nature. 351 (6328): 624–629. Bibcode:1991Natur.351..624W. doi:10.1038/351624a0. PMID 1646964.
  5. ↑ Davies, G. J.; Dodson, G. G.; Hubbard, R. E.; Tolley, S. P.; Dauter, Z.; Wilson, K. S.; Hjort, C.; Mikkelsen, J. M. L.; Rasmussen, G.; Schülein, M. (1993). "Structure and function of endoglucanase V". Nature. 365 (6444): 362–4. Bibcode:1993Natur.365..362D. doi:10.1038/365362a0. PMID 8377830.
  6. ↑ Baker, E. N. (2013). "Guy Dodson FRS (1937–2012)". Acta Crystallographica Section D. 69 (3): 490. doi:10.1107/S0907444913004186.
  7. ↑ Prof Guy Dodson on YouTube
  8. ↑ Written evidence submitted by Professor Guy Dodson, FRS, FMS, ForMemINSA, Parliament of the United Kingdom
  9. 1 2 Guy Dodson's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  10. ↑ Blundell, T. L.; Dodson, G. G.; Dodson, E.; Hodgkin, D. C.; Vijayan, M. (1971). "X-ray analysis and the structure of insulin". Recent progress in hormone research. 27: 1–40. PMID 4946130.
  11. ↑ Blundell, T.L.; Cutfield, J.F.; Cutfield, S.M.; Dodson, E.J.; Dodson, G.G.; Hodgkin, D.C.; Mercola, D.A.; Vijayan, M. (1971). "Atomic positions in rhombohedral 2-zinc insulin crystals". Nature. 231 (5304): 506–511. Bibcode:1971Natur.231..506B. doi:10.1038/231506a0. PMID 4932997.
  12. ↑ Adam, M. G.; Coller, L.; Hodgkin, D. C.; Dodson, G. G. (1966). "X-ray crystallographic studies on zinc insulin crystals". The American Journal of Medicine. 40 (5): 667–671. doi:10.1016/0002-9343(66)90146-X. PMID 5941965.
  13. ↑ Dodson, Guy (2002). "Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 48: 179–219. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2002.0011.
  14. ↑ Brzozowski, A. M.; Derewenda, U.; Derewenda, Z. S.; Dodson, G. G.; Lawson, D. M.; Turkenburg, J. P.; Bjorkling, F.; Huge-Jensen, B.; Patkar, S. A.; Thim, L. (1991). "A model for interfacial activation in lipases from the structure of a fungal lipase-inhibitor complex". Nature. 351 (6326): 491. Bibcode:1991Natur.351..491B. doi:10.1038/351491a0. PMID 2046751.
  15. ↑ Brady, L.; Brzozowski, A. M.; Derewenda, Z. S.; Dodson, E.; Dodson, G.; Tolley, S.; Turkenburg, J. P.; Christiansen, L.; Huge-Jensen, B.; Norskov, L.; Thim, L.; Menge, U. (1990). "A serine protease triad forms the catalytic centre of a triacylglycerol lipase". Nature. 343 (6260): 767–70. Bibcode:1990Natur.343..767B. doi:10.1038/343767a0. PMID 2304552.
  16. ↑ Perutz, M. F.; Wilkinson, A. J.; Paoli, M.; Dodson, G. G. (1998). "The Stereochemical Mechanism of the Cooperative Effects in Hemoglobin Revisited". Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure. 27: 1. doi:10.1146/annurev.biophys.27.1.1.
  17. ↑ "EC/1994/13:Dodson, George Guy". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 28 October 2014.
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