Applied Crystallography

Biography

Prof John R Helliwell is an Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Manchester and was awarded a DSc in Physics from the University of York in 1996. He was awarded a DPhil in molecular biophysics, specialising in protein crystallography, from the University of Oxford in 1978. Prof Helliwell has been involved, first at SRS, Daresbury then at ESRF and elsewhere, for over 40 years in the development of instrumentation and methods for synchrotron radiation, supporting the first phase of the ESRF in his role as Chair of the ESRF Macromolecular Crystallography. He was also both Vice-Chair and Chair of the ESRF SAC and Chairman of the Biological Crystallography ILL Neutron Beam Committee. Prof Helliwell has also been constantly engaged in outreach and dissemination of crystallography to the scientific community. In particular his book ‘Macromolecular Crystallography with Synchrotron Radiation’ (1993) has been an indispensable introduction to the field for generations of Structural Biologists.

Research Interest

Crystallography, Crystal structure, Synchrotron radiation, Neutrons.