Margaret oakley dayhoff biography of michael jackson

Born11th March, 1925 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) - Died5th February, 1983 (Silver Spring, Maryland, United States)

Dayhoff is known as the founder of bioinformatics.

Margaret oakley dayhoff biography of michael jackson

This she did by pioneering the application of mathematics and computational techniques to the sequencing of proteins and nucleic acids and establishing the first publicly available database for research in the area.

Family

Margaret Oakley Dayhoff was the only child of Kenneth W.

Oakley and Ruth P. Clark. Dayhoff's parents moved with her to New York City ten years after she was born in Philadelphia. In 1948 she married Edward S Dayhoff, whom she had met at high school.

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He had served in the Navy and became a physicist, being known for his pioneering work on the fine structure of the hydrogen atom. The two of them moved to Maryland in 1952 when Edward went to work for the National Bureau of Standards.

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