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4 unusual facts about Lionel Crawford


Bert Vogelstein

The p53 protein was discovered 10 years earlier by several groups, including that of David Lane and Lionel Crawford, Arnold Levine, and Lloyd Old.

Bruce Ponder

He carried out his PhD studies with Lionel Crawford in London working on chromatin organisation and DNA sequence specificity using polyoma virus.

Lionel Crawford

He was educated at Rendcomb College between 1941 and 1950 before being called up for National Service.

He was awarded the Gabor Medal of the Royal Society in 2005 "in recognition for his work on the small DNA tumour viruses, specifically the papova virus group, papilloma, polyoma and SV40".



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