Jane S. Richardson

Jane Shelby Richardson (born 1941 in Teaneck, New Jersey) is a professor of biochemistry at Duke University. She is known for pioneering the revolutionary development in protein depiction, known as Ribbon Diagrams or Richardson Diagrams.

The breakthrough in her studies arose from the protein structure studies performed by herself, her husband (David Richardson) and a team of scientists. During their crystallographic studies, Jane Richardson had come to realise that a general classification scheme can be developed from the recurring structural motifs of the proteins

Richardson earned a B.A. degree in philosophy from Swarthmore College and, without the benefit of a Ph.D., has become a biophysicist, earned a MacArthur fellowship and become a member of the National Academy of Sciences. She and her husband maintain the Richardson Laboratory at Duke University

External Link

 * Richarson's Lab Page