Virus crystallography and structural virology: a personal perspective

My first experiences with crystallography were as a graduate student at the University of Glasgow determining the structure of aromatic hydrocarbons using only primitive hand calculation techniques. I had my first experience using electronic computers as a post-doc in the lab of William Lipscomb in Minnesota. That gave me a good preparation for the structure determination of haemoglobin with Max Perutz in Cambridge. The discovery of the...