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Energy transfer and dynamical structure†

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2009

Josef Eisinger
Josef Eisinger
Affiliation:
Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974, U.S.A.
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It is only some 50 years ago that biophysicists obtained reliable experimental methods for estimating the molecular weights of biological macromolecules, chiefly as a result of Svedberg's work in developing the ultracentrifuge as an analytical instrument (Svedberg & Pedersen, 1940). Having gained some understanding of the size of proteins, interest soon thereafter turned to the shape and rotational relaxation times of these molecules, and Perrin's work on fluorescence depolarization helped to lay the foundations there (Perrin, 1929). Biophysics had to wait for the development of X-ray spectroscopy of proteins and nucleic acids to provide a picture of the interior structure of biological macromolecules.

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Research Article
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Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , February 1976 , pp. 21 - 33
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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