Peter Wright | |
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Born | Peter Edwin Wright |
Alma mater | University of Auckland |
Spouse | Jane Dyson[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biophysics |
Institutions | Scripps Research University of Sydney |
Thesis | Physico-chemical properties of metal ion sites in cuproproteins: an investigation of selected copper(II) complexes (1972) |
Website | www |
Peter Edwin Wright is a scientist, an NMR spectroscopist and a professor at the Scripps Research Institute.[2][3][4] He serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Molecular Biology.[5]
Wright is from New Zealand and studied at the University of Auckland. He graduated in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science degree followed by a Master of Science degree in 1969. He completed his PhD in chemistry in 1972[6] with a thesis on the physico-chemical properties of metal ion sites in cuproproteins: an investigation of selected copper(II) complexes.[7]
From 1976 to 1984, he was employed by the University of Sydney. Since 1984, he has been employed at the Scripps Research Institute.[6][8]
Wright is a proponent of the theory of conformational sampling being of importance to enzyme catalysis and intrinsically disordered proteins,[9][10][11] which is opposed to the theory of electrostatic preorganization.
Wright is married to Jane Dyson.[1]