Donald L. D. Caspar (January 8, 1927 – November 27, 2021) was an American structural biologist (the very term he coined) known for his works on the structures of biological molecules, particularly of the tobacco mosaic virus. [2][3][4] He was an emeritus professor of biological science at the Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State Univ...

2022年1月7日 · Donald Caspar, best known for his work determining the structure of the tobacco mosaic virus, died on November 27, 2021 at the age of 94. He is also credited with creating the term “structural biology” to describe the burgeoning field. Caspar was born in Ithaca, New York, on January 8, 1927.

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Donald Caspar, structural biologist and crystallographer, is a professor emeritus of Biological Sciences at the Institute of Molecular Biophysics at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida and is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

2021年12月22日 · Donald Caspar defined the rules that govern the self-assembly of simple viruses. This laid the foundations for a new way of thinking about the molecular systems that regulate and drive all living...

Donald Caspar, structural biologist and crystallographer, is a professor emeritus of Biological Sciences at the Institute of Molecular Biophysics at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida and is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

2017年5月31日 · Don Caspar first came to the MRC Unit for the Study of the Molecular Structure of Biological Systems (now the LMB) as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 1955. He would become a frequent scientific worker at the Lab over the next 20 years and remained a friend and scientific colleague to many.

2022年1月12日 · Donald Caspar, professor emeritus in Florida State University’s Institute of Molecular Biophysics and a celebrated scientist who spent much of his career studying viruses, died Nov. 27. He was 94. Caspar coined the term “structural biology,” now used by researchers worldwide to describe the field focused on identifying the molecular ...

2022年4月29日 · Donald L.D. Caspar (1927–2021) devoted his career to understanding the structure of viruses. He interacted with leading structural scientists of his time and ran top research laboratories. His discoveries cut across disciplinary lines as he established the icosahedral geometry of viruses.

MSA has the sad duty to report the passing of Dr. Don Caspar on November 27. This is a great loss of one of the pioneers of structural biology. Born in 1927, he was an Emeritus Faculty Member at Florida State University. The Caspar and Klug quasi-equivalence theory of icosahedral virus construction (Caspar DL, Klug A. 1962.