Jane Shelby Richardson (born 1941 in Teaneck, New Jersey) is an American biochemist who developed the Richardson diagram, or ribbon diagram, method of representing proteins. As of 2009, she is a professor in biochemistry at Duke University.
While attending high school in 1958, she won third place in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search, the most prestigious science fair in the United States, with calculations of the satellite Sputnik's orbit fr...
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Jane Shelby Richardson (born 1941 in Teaneck, New Jersey) is an American biochemist who developed the Richardson diagram, or ribbon diagram, method of representing proteins. As of 2009, she is a professor in biochemistry at Duke University.
While attending high school in 1958, she won third place in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search, the most prestigious science fair in the United States, with calculations of the satellite Sputnik's orbit from her own observations. She continued her education in science at Swarthmore College, enrolling with the intention of studying mathematics, astronomy and physics. Her bachelors degree, though, was ultimately in philosophy with a minor in physics, and she pursued graduate work in philosophy at Harvard University, receiving her masters degree in 1966. After finding herself unsuited to teaching high school, she joined her husband, David Richardson, then completing his PhD work at MIT, in studying the 3-dimensional structure of the Staphylococcal...
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