Bernal, John Desmond, (crystallographer)
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John Desmond Bernal () was born on 10 May He attended Cambridge University, , before working in the Davy Faraday Laboratory, London, He was appointed Lecturer in Structural Crystallography at Cambridge in , and Assistant Director of Research in Crystallography, Cambridge, He was made Professor of Physics at Birkbeck College, University of London, in January During the War Bernal worked in the Ministry of Security, as a member of the Civil Defence Research Committee, ; at Bomber Command, ; and in Combined Operations, April He returned to Birkbeck in , and carried out research at the Davy Faraday Laboratory, before working at the Biomolecular Research Laboratory, Torrington Square, opened in He was made Professor of Crystallography at Birkbeck College in September Bernal retired from Birkbeck in , and died on 15 September
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The story opens in when I left my hometown, Vienna, for Cambridge, England, to seek the Great Sage. He was an Irish Catholic converted to Communism, a mineralogist who had turned to X-ray crystallography: J.D. Bernal. I asked the Great Sage : "How can I solve the secret of life". He replied : "The secret of life lies in the structure of proteins, and there is only one way of solving it and that is by crys tallography." We called him the sage because he knew everything from history to physics. His conversation was the most fascinating of anyone I have ever come across. Actually what had attracted me to Cambridge were the lectures of a young organic chemist in Vienna who told us students of the work being done in the laboratory headed by Frederick Gowland Hopkins,one of the founders of biochemistry. (Max Ferdinand Perutz), the Nobel Laureate
Bernal was a committed Marxist and a member of the British Communist Party. Bernal's interest and involvement in social and political issues began about the same time he initiated his scientific studies at Cambridge. He was the most respected and loved of Western intellectual communists. Today Bernal's views as a hardcore communist may no
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