Question

This scientist spent the 1960s in Al Cotton’s lab reverse-engineering techniques to study the structure of Staphylococcal nuclease (“NUKE-lee-ace”). For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this biochemist who helped characterize superoxide dismutase as an inaugural entry in the PDB. This researcher’s article “Anatomy and Taxonomy of Protein Structures” introduced ribbon diagrams.
ANSWER: Jane Richardson [or Jane Shelby Richardson]
[10m] Margaret Thatcher briefly worked in the lab of this pioneering crystallographer, who won a Nobel Prize for finding the structure of vitamin B12.
ANSWER: Dorothy Hodgkin [or Dorothy Mary Crowfoot; or Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin]
[10e] Richardson and Hodgkin are successors of this pioneering crystallographer, who died of cancer shortly after Photo 51 was taken in her lab.
ANSWER: Rosalind Franklin [or Rosalind Elsie Franklin]
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Data

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Berkeley ANorthwestern0101020
Berkeley BChicago D001010
Chicago CTruman State001010
Columbia AChicago B0101020
Cornell AStanford001010
DukeClaremont Colleges1001020
FloridaArizona State001010
HarvardCornell B001010
IllinoisNYU0101020
Iowa StateGeorgia Tech001010
KentuckySouth Carolina001010
MarylandBrown001010
McGillMinnesota B001010
MichiganToronto A001010
North Carolina ATexas0101020
OttawaYale B001010
PennColumbia B0101020
PurdueMinnesota A0101020
RutgersWUSTL B001010
Toronto BVirginia001010
VanderbiltNorth Carolina B0101020
WUSTL AChicago A001010
WaterlooIndiana001010
Yale AJohns Hopkins0101020

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2024 ACF Nationals04/21/2024Y2413.75100%33%4%