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Authorised form of name	Blow; David Mervyn (1931 - 2004)
Dates	1931 - 2004
Nationality	British
Place of birth	Handsworth, Birmingham, England
Date of birth	27/06/1931
Place of death	Appledore, Devon
Date of death	09/06/2004
Research field	Protein crystallography
Activity	Education: Kingswood School, Bath; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Career: National Service, RAF; Staff, MRC Unit for Study of Molecular Biological Systems, Cambridge (1959-1962); staff, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (1962-1977); Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge (1969-1977); Professor of Biophysics, Imperial College London (1977-1994, Emeritus), Dean, Royal College of Science (1981-1984), Head Department of Physics (1991-1994), Senior Research Fellow (1994-2004); President British Crystallographic Association (1984-1987); CIBA Prize of the Biochemical Society (1967); the Charles Leopold Meyer Prize of the French Academy (1979); the Wolf Foundation Prize for Chemistry (1987)
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	16/03/1972
Age at election	40
Relationships	Married (1955) Mavis Sears
Source	Sources: Obituaries in The Times (01/07/2004) and The Independent (23/06/2004) References: D Blow and S Wallwork, 'Prehistory of the British Crystallographic Association' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 177-186
Virtual International Authority File	http://viaf.org/viaf/91480489
Code	NA4311

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
IM/000410	Blow, David Mervyn	October 1976
EC/1972/04	Blow, David Mervin: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/000411	Blow, David Mervyn	2001

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