Early days in drug discovery by crystallography-personal recollections

Abstract

The influences of Lawrence Bragg and Max Perutz are evident in the contemporary emphasis on structural enablement in drug discovery. On this occasion of the centenary of Braggs equation, his role in supporting the earliest structural studies of biological materials at the Cavendish Laboratory is remembered. The 1962 Nobel Prizes for the structures of DNA and proteins marked the golden anniversary of the von Laue and Bragg discoveries.