Caspar, Donald L D

Gregory J Morgan, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003562

1927–American biophysicist who helped determine the structure of Tobacco mosaic virus.

Keywords: Tobacco mosaic virus; TMV; polyomavirus; Tomato bushy stunt virus; quasi-equivalence

 Further Reading
    Caspar DLD (1956) Structure of Tomato Bushy Stunt Virus. Nature 177: 475–477.
    Caspar DLD (1956) The radial density distribution in the Tobacco Mosaic Virus particle. Nature 177: 928–929.
    book Caspar DLD and Klug A (1962) "Physical principles in the construction of regular viruses". Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology XXVII, pp. 1–24. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
    Rayment I, Baker T, Caspar DLD and Murakami WT (1982) Polyoma virus capsid structure at 22.5Å resolution. Nature 295: 110–115.

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Morgan, Gregory J(Apr 2001) Caspar, Donald L D. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0003562]