Celebrating the 75th birthday of Professor Wladek Minor, one of the most accomplished Polish-American structural biologists

Mariusz Jaskolski; Alexander Wlodawer; Zbigniew Dauter; Ivan Shabalin; Maksymilian Chruszcz

doi:10.18388/abp.2020_5539

Celebrating the 75th birthday of Professor Wladek Minor, one of the most accomplished Polish-American structural biologists

Mariusz Jaskolski Department of Crystallography, Faculty of Chemistry, A. Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1587-6489
Alexander Wlodawer Center for Structural Biology, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, U.S.A. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5510-9703
Zbigniew Dauter Center for Structural Biology, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.
Ivan Shabalin Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3955-9242
Maksymilian Chruszcz Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, U.S.A. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7521-5485

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18388/abp.2020_5539

Abstract

This paper describes the scientific career and accomplishments of Professor Wladek Minor, who holds an endowed chair at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, USA. Prof. Minor is a coauthor of data processing software used by macromolecular crystallographers world-wide, as well as of structural biology servers and of a repository for raw diffraction data. He made major contributions to the validation of biostructural data, with special focus on drug design targets and reproducibility in biomedical research. He is among the most highly cited molecular biologists ever.

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2021-01-21

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Vol. 68 No. 1 (2021)

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