Kenneth C. Holmes is Emeritus Director of the Department of Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research (MPI), Heidelberg, Germany. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and recipient of the Aminoff Prize, the Gabor Prize, and the European Latsis Prize. Holmes' long-term collaboration with Aaron Klug began in the late 1950s at Birkbeck College and continued at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge before his move to MPI in 1968.
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. From Durban to Birkbeck College: 1. Durban and Johannesburg
2. Cape Town
3. Cambridge
4. The first visit to Israel
5. Back to Cambridge
6. Birkbeck-1
7. Birkbeck-2
Part II. Science at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology: 8. The Laboratory of Molecular Biology
9. Spherical virus structure
10. Tobacco mosaic virus
11. From Thon rings to modern dance
12. Tomography
13. Transfer RNA
14. Chromatin and nucleosomes
15. Zinc fingers
Part III. Duties and Rewards: 16. Peterhouse
17. Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology
18. Presidency of the Royal Society
19. Ben Gurion University
20. Prizes
21. Envoi
Appendicies: Appendix 1. Aaron's Birthplace - Zhelva, Lithuania Mark Gevisser
Appendix 2. Diffraction
Appendix 3. Aaron Klug's scientific publications
Index.
