Michael Rossmann
George Michael Rossmann ( born July 30, 1930 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German - American biologist and professor at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
With crystallographic methods he scored a fundamental understanding of the super secondary structure of proteins ( Rossmann fold ) and the structure of viruses.
Life
Rossmann graduated from the University of London in 1951 and a bachelor's degree in 1953 a master's in physics. A Ph.D. he acquired in 1956 from the University of Glasgow with a thesis on chemical crystallography. As a postdoctoral fellow he worked - sponsored by the Fulbright Program - at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and then as a research assistant at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge. Since 1964 he has professorships at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana held, : from 1964 as associate professor ( assistant professor ), and from 1967 also as a full professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, from 1975 in the Department of Biochemistry, 1978 turn in the Department of biological Sciences. He has additional teaching positions since 1989 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and since 1995 of Biochemistry at Indiana University School of Medicine ( Indiana University -Purdue University Indianapolis ) in Indianapolis.