Kenneth Holmes

Kenneth Charles Holmes FRS (1934 – 2 November 2021) was a British molecular biologist.

He was born in Hammersmith, London. He was a former colleague of Rosalind Franklin at Birkbeck College with Aaron Klug and John Finch and moved to the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge in 1962. From 1975 and 1976 he was acting Head of Outstation, EMBL Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory at DESY, Hamburg.[1] He worked at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research as an "Emeritus Scientific Member".

In 1981, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society,[2] and was awarded their 1997 Gabor Medal which is of silver gilt and then accompanied by 1,000 pounds[3] "in recognition of his achievements in molecular biology, in particular his pioneering analyses of biological structures and viruses, and his development of the use of synchrotron radiation for X-ray diffraction experiments, now a widely used technique not only in molecular biology but in physics and materials science".[4]

He was awarded both the European Latsis Prize worth 100,000 Swiss Francs in 2000 based on his work on "Molecular Structure", and the Gregori Aminoff Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2001.[5]

His scientific biography of Sir Aaron Klug, "Aaron Klug - A Long Way from Durban: A Biography" was published in 2017 by Cambridge University Press. In 2021, he received the Lennart Philipson Award.[6]

Holmes died on 2 November 2021, at the age of 86.[7]

References
  1. "Curriculum Vitae". Max Planck Institute for Medical Research. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
  2. "Fellows". Royal Society. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
  3. "Biophysicist Prof. Kenneth Holmes Awarded the European Latsis Prize". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
  4. "Gabor previous winners 2005 - 1989". The Royal Society. Retrieved 5 February 2009.
  5. "European Latsis Prize". European Science Foundation. Archived from the original on 16 December 2008. Retrieved 5 February 2009.
  6. "EMBL Alumni Awards 2021". European Molecular Biology Laboratory. 13 July 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
  7. "In memoriam: Kenneth Holmes". Desy. 8 November 2021.


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