Isidor Fankuchen was an American pioneer of crystallography.
10 Facts About Isidor Fankuchen
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Isidor Fankuchen was one of the founders of the International Union of Crystallography.
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Isidor Fankuchen's name has mistakenly been recorded as Isadore van Kueken.
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Isidor Fankuchen then went to Manchester University on a post-doctoral fellowship from the Schweinburg Foundation and worked with Sir Lawrence Bragg followed by two years at Birkbeck College with JD Bernal during which time they examined the structure of chymotrypsin and haemoglobin.
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Isidor Fankuchen collaborated with Bernal's student Dorothy Hodgkin in studying steroids.
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Isidor Fankuchen then returned to the United States and worked on protein chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Isidor Fankuchen then joined the Anderson Institute for Biological Research, Red Wing, Minnesota serving as an assistant director.
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Isidor Fankuchen was influential in training a generation of crystallographers and organized a monthly seminar group called the "Point Group".
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Isidor Fankuchen's courses produced so-called "Fan's two-week wonders" who learned crystallography and knew what could be done with it.
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Isidor Fankuchen studied the structure of the tobacco mosaic virus, the tomato bushy stunt virus, and fibres.