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William Astbury

1898 - 1961

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William Thomas Astbury FRS (25 February 1898 – 4 June 1961) was an English physicist and molecular biologist who made pioneering X-ray diffraction studies of biological molecules. His work on keratin provided the foundation for Linus Pauling's discovery of the α-helix. He also studied the structure for DNA in 1937 and made the first step in the elucidation of its structure. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Astbury is the 559th most popular physicist (up from 668th in 2019), the 2,960th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,676th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, William Astbury ranks 559 out of 851. Before him are Robert H. Dicke, Philip Morrison, Richard Mollier, Ursula Franklin, Knut Ångström, and Giuseppe Occhialini. After him are Samuel T. Cohen, Wander Johannes de Haas, Ernest Marsden, Boris Rosing, Alfred Perot, and Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, William Astbury ranks 162. Before him are Boughera El Ouafi, Lev Knipper, Jimmy Douglas, Norman Vincent Peale, Mikhail Koshkin, and Alfons Gorbach. After him are Erich Bey, Alfred Sauvy, Eugen Wüster, Louis Adamic, Hisamuddin of Selangor, and Arnold Chikobava. Among people deceased in 1961, William Astbury ranks 107. Before him are Harriet Bosse, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Alexander Goldenweiser, Maneca, Ralf Törngren, and Boris Vilkitsky. After him are Jean de Bie, Ida Siekmann, Leonhard Frank, Beppo Levi, Marion Davies, and Charles D. B. King.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Astbury ranks 2,961 out of 8,785. Before him are Biff Byford (1951), FKA Twigs (1988), Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893), Jonny Lee Miller (1972), Anthony Hope (1863), and John Florio (1553). After him are Rita Tushingham (1942), Thomas Arnold (1795), James B. Francis (1815), Richard Swinburne (1934), Stafford Beer (1926), and Phyllida Law (1932).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, William Astbury ranks 63. Before him are John Leslie (1766), Paul Davies (1946), William Robert Grove (1811), Joseph Larmor (1857), Gilbert Walker (1868), and John Robison (1739). After him are Ernest Marsden (1889), Ralph H. Fowler (1889), John Lennard-Jones (1894), Sergey Kapitsa (1928), Michael Berry (1941), and John D. Barrow (1952).

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