Supplementary material from "JOHN THOMAS FINCH. 28 February 1930 — 5 December 2017"
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John Finch was a gifted experimentalist who used X-ray crystallography and electron microscopy to elucidate the structures of important biological assemblies, particularly viruses and chromatin. When he started research in the 1950s, little was known about the structure of viruses, and the methods for investigating them were fairly limited. His early work on crystals of viruses was important in establishing their symmetry, and later with the electron microscope he mapped out the molecular structure of many virus coats. His observations on negatively stained preparations demonstrated that images of particles prepared in this way represented projections of fully stained embedded particles, not merely one-sided footprints. This was very relevant to the development of methods for making three-dimensional maps of specimens from electron micrographs. Later, besides further studies of viruses, he worked on many other systems, including chromatin, nucleosomes and tRNA. John was very much a team player and held an important place as the key experimentalist in many influential collaborations, investigating a diverse range of biological specimens.
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Crowther, R. A.; Holmes, K. C. (2018). Supplementary material from "JOHN THOMAS FINCH. 28 February 1930 — 5 December 2017". The Royal Society. Collection. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4335947.v1