Louise Napier Johnson#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 2085 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2001 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Louise Napier Johnson passed away September 25, 2012.
Positions Held
- 2008 Diamond Fellow
- 2003-2008 Science Director, Life Sciences, Diamond Light Source.
- 1990 Honorary Fellow, Somerville College Oxford
- 1990-2008 Professorial Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford (Emeritus Fellow 2008- )
- 1990-2007 David Phillips Professor in Molecular Biophysics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford
- 1973-1990 Additional Fellow and Janet Vaughan Lecturer, Somerville College, Oxford
- 1973-1990 University Lecturer in Molecular Biophysics, University of Oxford
- 1967-1973 Departmental Demonstrator in the Zoology Department, University of Oxford and Janet Vaughan Lecturer in Biophysics at Somerville College, Oxford
- 1966-1967 Department of Biophysics, Yale University. Post-doctoral research assistant in Prof. F.M. Richards Laboratory
Fields of Scholarship
- Mechanisms for control and catalysis in biologically important molecules.
Honours and Awards
- Kaj Linderstrom-Lang Prize 1989 for "pioneering contributions to protein crystallography and to our understanding of the structural properties of enzymes, especially through the use of time-resolved X-ray crystallography"
- 1990 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1991 Member of European Molecular Biology Organisation
- 1992 Honorary D.Sc. University of St. Andrews
- 1993 Fellow University College London
- 1993 Royal Society of Chemistry Award in Enzyme Chemistry, The Charmian Medal
- 1998 Datta Medal, Federation of European Biochemical Societies
- 2000 Elected Associate Fellow, Third World Academy of Science
- 2001 Member of Academia Europaea
- 2001 N. and B. L. Vallee Visiting Professor, Harvard University Medical School
- 2003 DBE, New Year's Honors
- 2004 Honorary D.Sc. University of Bath
- 2004 Honorary Fellowship of the British Biophysical Society
- 2004 Honorary Fellowship of the Biochemical Society
- 2004 Honorary Fellowship of the Institute of Biology
- 2005 Foreign Fellow, Bangladesh Academy of Sciences
- 2007 Foreign Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2009 Novartis Medal and Prize, Biochemical Society
- 2009 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2009 Honorary D.Sc. Imperial College London
