Norman Simmons

Norman Simmons (1915–2004) was a DNA research pioneer.[1]

For the American jazz pianist and arranger, see Norman Simmons (musician).

Simmons worked with Elkan Blout on proteins and polypeptides and was also recognized for isolating a structurally pure form of DNA. This was, in fact, the DNA which Rosalind Franklin used in her X-ray diffraction studies that rewarded Maurice Wilkins, James Watson and Francis Crick with the Nobel Prize for the double helix model of DNA. Wilkins stated at that time: "I wish to thank Norman Simmons for having refined techniques of isolating DNA, and thereby helping a great many workers including ourselves."

References
  1. "Obituaries". Harvard Dental Bulletin 10(4): 28. Fall 2004-Winter 2005.


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