Jane S. Richardson
Jane Shelby Richardson (born 1941 in Teaneck, New Jersey) is a professor of biochemistry at Duke University. She is known for pioneering the revolutionary development in protein depiction, known as Ribbon Diagrams or Richardson Diagrams [1].
The breakthrough in her studies arose from the protein structure studies performed by herself, her husband (David Richardson) and a team of scientists. During their crystallographic studies, Jane Richardson had come to realise that a general classification scheme can be developed from the recurring structural motifs of the proteins [2]
Richardson earned a B.A. degree in philosophy from Swarthmore College and, without the benefit of a Ph.D., has become a biophysicist, earned a MacArthur fellowship and become a member of the National Academy of Sciences. She and her husband, David C. Richardson, maintain the Richardson Laboratory at Duke University
References
- ^ Women in Chemistry; Jane S. Richardson. Retrieved on 2007-05-30.
- ^ Bahar, S. (2004). "Ribbon Diagrams and Protein Taxonomy: Profile of Jane S. Richardson" (PDF). The Biological Physicist. 4 (3): 5–8. Retrieved 2007-05-31.
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