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2 unusual facts about William Astbury


Hans Neurath

He published seminal papers on protein structure and denaturation and debunked early models of protein structures, notably those of William Astbury.

William Astbury

Interestingly, Neurath's paper and Astbury's data inspired H. S. Taylor (1941,1942) and Maurice Huggins (1943) to propose models of keratin that are very close to the modern α-helix.



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