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This is where he started publishing the sequence of insulin. The paper gives the full B-chain sequence, which it tentatively calls the "Phenylalanyl Chain" because it starts with a Phenylalanyl.

The official link seems to be: portlandpress.com/biochemj/article/49/4/463/47212/The-amino-acid-sequence-in-the-phenylalanyl-chain It seems to explain the methods very well at first glance, with lots of schematics.

This is one of those things that when astronomers first saw them they went "oh fuck we've found extraterrestrial life".

Some examples:

Jointly awarded to Bragg Junior and Senior. Junior was only 25 at the time, the youngest ever STEM nobel prize laureate as of 2024, and given that science is getting harder nad harder, this is not likely to change ever.

Part of what they did was to determine the structure of a bunch of rocks. These must have been every exciting times, to be able for the first time to have direct evidence of the molecular composition of materials.

As described at Section "Radio astronomy", this new type of telescope led to the exciting discovery of new types of astronomical objects, notably pulsars and quasars.

Ciro Santilli defines a "model protein" as a protein which has been significantly used in the history of protein science, in analogy to the term model organism.

Key characteristics of model proteins include:

Important model proteins include: