Norman Simmons
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Norman Simmons (1915–2004) was a DNA research pioneer.[1]
Simmons worked with Elkan Blout on proteins and polypeptides and was also recognized for isolating a structurally pure form of DNA. This was, in fact, the DNA which Rosalind Franklin used in her X-ray diffraction studies that rewarded Maurice Wilkins, James Watson and Francis Crick with the Nobel Prize for the double helix model of DNA. In his Nobel Prize lecture of 1962, Wilkins thanked Simmons "for having refined techniques of isolating DNA, and thereby helping a great many workers including ourselves."[2]
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- In Memoriam: Norman Simmons on University of California website
- Video of Dr. Norman Simmons on YouTube
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