David Davies: Structural biologist and mentor

David Davies (Fig. 1) was not, initially, a macromolecular crystallographer and neither was he enthusiastic about the prospects of using crystallography to determine the structures of proteins. During the time that he was a student at Oxford, determining the crystal structures of small molecules, he attended a meeting in Cambridge at which Max Perutz discussed his X-ray studies of hemoglobin crystals. On the drive back to Oxford, David and his...