Dame Louise Napier Johnson
- Born 26 Sep 1940 in Worcester
- 1952 - 59 Wimbledon High School for Girls
- 1959 read physics at University College London, where her mother had read Biochemistry and Physiology in the 1930s
- 1962 moved to Royal Institution to work on a PhD in Biophysics which she gained in 1965, part of the team who found the structure of lysosyme
- 1966 postdoctoral year in Yale
- 1967 returned to University of Oxford
- 1968 married the theoretical physicist Abdus Salam
- 1973 University lecturer associated with Somerville College
- 1976 Author with Tom Blundell of a textbook 'Protein Crystallography'
academic Press ISBN 0121083500
- 1990 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1990 - 2007 David Phillips Professor of Molecular Biophysics, Oxford
- 1991 - 2012 Hon Fellow Somerville College, Oxford
- 2003 awarded a Dame of the British Empire
- 2003 - 2008 Director of Life Sciences at Diamond Light Source
- 2008 - 2012 Emeritus Fellow Corpus Christi College, Oxford
- Died 25 Sep 2012
- Obituaries published in 'The Telegraph' 8 Oct 2012,
The Guardian by Ton Blundell 10 October 2012, The Times
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