Donald L D Caspar was an American structural biologist known for his works on the structures of biological molecules, particularly of the tobacco mosaic virus.
10 Facts About Donald Caspar
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Donald Caspar was an emeritus professor of biological science at the Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, and an emeritus professor of biology at the Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University.
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Donald Caspar has made significant scientific contributions in virus biology, X-ray, neutron and electron diffraction, and protein plasticity.
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Donald Caspar joined Yale University from where he earned his PhD in biophysics in 1955.
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Donald Caspar's thesis was on the structure of tobacco mosaic virus titled The Radial Structure of Tobacco Mosaic Virus.
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Donald Caspar worked with James D Watson, with whom he had close professional association throughout his career.
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Donald Caspar remained one of Franklin's closest friends during her brief lifetime.
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Donald Caspar was not a particularly enthusiastic writer; as a result, Franklin had to write every word of his paper.
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Donald Caspar was elected a member of the Biophysics and Computational Biology section of the National Academy of Sciences in 1994.
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Donald Caspar received the first Fellow of the Biophysical Society Award in 2000.