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Robert Henry Symons 1934--2006 (2008)

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Microbiology Virology Plant diseases Molecular biology Obituaries Botany 20th century, late Australia Symons, Robert Henry

Bob Symons died in Adelaide on 4 October 2006 after a long illness. He was distinguished through his contributions to our knowledge of the structure, function and replication of plant viruses, viroids and virusoids. His research culminated in the discovery of the hammerhead folding of the RNA chain and its role as a ribozyme in self-cleavage of the RNA in some of these plant pathogens. He was a leader in his field and was responsible for commercial applications of his research and the establishment in Adelaide of the first Australian company to produce and market molecular biologicals for research.

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Authors & Contributors
Sankaran, Neeraja
Morgan, Gregory J.
Creager, Angela N. H.
Colman, Peter M.
Forterre, Patrick
Burgess, Antony W.
Journals
Historical Records of Australian Science
Social Studies of Science
Journal of the History of Biology
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy
Publishers
George Washington University
Yale University Press
University of Pittsburgh Press
University of Chicago Press
Cambridge University Press
Concepts
Molecular biology
Microbiology
Virology
DNA; RNA
Biotechnology
Plant diseases
People
Kay, Lily
Watson, James Dewey
Temin, Howard M.
Stanley, Wendell Meredith
Sanchis-Bayarri Vaillant, Vicente
Franklin, Rosalind
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
Australia
United States
Valencia (Spain)
Austria
Institutions
Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA Molecules (1975)
Stanford University
Rutgers University
Institut Pasteur, Paris
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) (Australia)
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