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ASTBURY, William Thomas (1898 – 1961)

1898 – 1961

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1932 CE

#6918

X-ray studies of the structures of hair, wool, and related fibres. I. General.

Astbury, a student of William Lawrence Bragg, was the first to study proteins by X-ray analysis. He applied X-ray analysis to the structure of hair, wool, and related fibers, of which the protein keratin is the princi…