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David Mervyn Blow was born on 27 June, 1931 in Birmingham, England, is a British biophysicist. Discover David Mervyn Blow's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 27 June 1931
Birthday 27 June
Birthplace Birmingham, England
Date of death 8 June, 2004
Died Place Appledore, Torridge (near Bideford), Devon, England
Nationality Birmingham

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1931

David Mervyn Blow (27 June 1931 – 8 June 2004) was an influential British biophysicist.

He was best known for the development of X-ray crystallography, a technique used to determine the molecular structures of tens of thousands of biological molecules.

This has been extremely important to the pharmaceutical industry.

Blow was born in Birmingham, England.

He was educated at Kingswood School in Bath, Somerset and the University of Cambridge where he won a scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

1954

In 1954, he met Max Perutz; they began to study a new technique wherein X-rays would be passed through a protein sample at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

This eventually led to the creation of a three-dimensional structure of haemoglobin.

1955

Blow married Mavis Sears in 1955, and they had two children, a son Julian and a daughter Elizabeth.

He died of lung cancer at the age of 72, in Appledore, Torridge (near Bideford), Devon.

1958

His PhD was awarded in 1958 for X-ray analysis of haemoglobin supervised by Max Perutz at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB).

Following graduation from Cambridge, Blow spent two years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded by the Fulbright Foundation

1972

Blow was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1972.

1977

Blow was appointed professor of biophysics at Imperial College London in 1977.

His doctoral students include Richard Henderson, Paul Sigler, and Alice Vrielink.

1987

He was awarded the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 1987.