Guy Dodson

George Guy Dodson FRS FMedSci (13 January 1937 – 24 December 2012), was a British biochemist who specialised in protein crystallography at the University of York.

His doctoral thesis, completed in 1961, was titled An X-ray analysis of an alkaloid and some investigation into nickel bis-salicylaldahyde triethylene tetramine.

Dodson was head of the structural biology laboratories at the University of York and National Institute for Medical Research, London.

During his career he collaborated with many scientists[9] including Dale Wigley, Gideon Davies,[4] Andrzej Brzozowski,[15] Leo Brady[16] and Max Perutz.

His nomination reads Guy Dodson's major researches have been concerned with the Xray analysis of a variety of crystalline proteins many now being carried out with increasing speed and accuracy through the use of synchrotron radiation.