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Kenneth Charles Holmes FRS (1934 – 2 November 2021) was a British molecular biologist and a pioneer in using synchrotron X-ray radiation to study biology. Education and career. Holmes was born in Hammersmith, London and attended the Chiswick School in London.
Nov 2, 2021 · Kenneth Holmes was renowned for pioneering the use of X-rays from synchrotron particle accelerators to study biological structures at previously unachievable speeds. This technique is now a pillar of modern molecular biology.
- November 2, 2021
Jul 26, 2012 · In 1953 an article by Kenneth Holmes with the title “Your Next 12 Hours” was printed in the Sunday newspaper supplement “This Week Magazine”. Holmes reprinted the short essay under investigation, but he did not claim authorship.
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1945-1952: Chiswick County School1952-1955: St. John´s College, Cambridge1955: BA, University of Cambridge1959: MA, University of Cambridge1955-1960: Research Assistant and Research Associate, Birkbeck College (University of London) Department of Crystallography1960-1961: Research Associate in Pathology The Childrens Hospital, Boston, USA and Childrens Cancer Research Foundation1961-1968: Scientific Staff, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England1968: Member of EMBO1997: Award of the Gabor Medal of the Royal Society of London2000: Award of the European Latsis Prize2001: Award of the Gregori Aminoff Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesMar 18, 2022 · Ken Holmes was a versatile experimentalist. He applied his knowledge of the physical sciences to developing methods for determining the structure of biological samples.
- Belinda Bullard
- Front Mol Biosci. 2022; 9: 855014.
- 10.3389/fmolb.2022.855014
- 2022
Kenneth Holmes retired after 22 years as Principal of the Leicester College of Art in 1956, and after moving to Cornwall where he continued to practice and exhibit as an artist. He died in Camelford, Cornwall, in September 1994, at the age of 92½.
Painter, watercolourist, etcher, engraver and teacher. Born Skipton, Yorkshire, 1902. Studied Leeds College of Art 1921-23 and at the Royal College of Art 1923-27. On leaving the RCA he studied abroad, mainly in Italy, but also France and Holland.
