Prof Struther Arnott, CBE, FRS

Career: King's Coll London: scientist MRC Biophysics Res Unit 1960-70, physics demonstrator 1960-67, dir of postgrad studies in biophysics 1967-70, fell 1997; Purdue Univ Indiana: prof of biology 1970-, head of biological sciences 1975-80, vice-pres (res) and dean Graduate Sch 1980-86; Univ of Oxford: sr visiting fell Jesus Coll 1980-81, Nuffield res fell Green Coll 1985-86; princ and vice-chllr Univ of St Andrews 1986-2000 (princ and vice-chllr emeritus 2000-); Haddow prof of biomolecular structure Chester Beatty Labs 2000-03, visiting prof and sr res fell Imperial Coll of Science, Technol and Med London 2002-; hon prof Sch of Pharmacy UCL 2004-; Guggenheim Meml Fndn fell 1985, Leverhulme Fellowship 2002; Hon ScD St Andrews Laurinburg 1994, Hon DSc Purdue Univ Indiana 1998, Hon LLD Univ of St Andrews 1999; FRS 1986, FRSE 1987-2006, FKC 1997

Books and Publications: papers in learned jls on structures of fibrous biopolymers, especially nucleic acids and polysaccharides, and the techniques for visualising them