David W. Green ( - 1976) was a crystallographer at the Medical Research Council Unit for the Study of the Molecular Structure of Biological Systems, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
David W. Green was a graduate student in the laboratory of Max Perutz at the University of Cambridge from 1952 to 1955 and obtained a Ph.D.[1][2] He is known for demonstrating the first use of isomorphous replacement to solve the phase problem in X-ray crystallography.
[3] After completing his Ph.D., Green moved to the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory at The Royal Institution in autumn 1955.
[4] He was recruited by Linus Pauling[5] but ultimately moved to MIT to work with Alexander Rich.
[9] In Edinburgh, Green was a senior lecturer and ran a group in solid state physics.