Louise Johnson
Dame Louise Johnson | |
|---|---|
| Born | Louise Napier Johnson 26 September 1940 |
| Died | 25 September 2012 (aged 71) |
| Education | Wimbledon High School for Girls |
| Alma mater | University College London (BSc, PhD) |
| Known for | Discovering the structure of lysozyme and N-Acetylglucosamine |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Thesis | An X-ray crystallographic study of N-acetylglucosamine and its relation to lysozyme. (1965) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Chilton Phillips |
| Other academic advisors | Frederic M. Richards |
| Doctoral students | David Barford Jenny Martin David J. Owen |
| Other notable students | Janos Hajdu |
Dame Louise Napier Johnson, DBE FRS (26 September 1940 – 25 September 2012), was a British biochemist and protein crystallographer. She was David Phillips Professor of Molecular Biophysics at the University of Oxford from 1990 to 2007, and later an emeritus professor. She was married to Pakistani nuclear physicist and a Nobel Prize-laureate Abdus Salam.