David Ian Stuart, Date of Birth

David Ian Stuart

X-ray crystallographer

Date of Birth: 08-Dec-1953

Profession: biologist, researcher

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

David Ian Stuart (born 8 December 1953) is a Medical Research Council Professor of Structural Biology at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford where he is also a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford.
He is best known for his contributions to the X-ray crystallography of viruses, in particular for determining the structures of foot-and-mouth disease virus, bluetongue virus and the membrane-containing phages PRD1 (the first structure of an enveloped virus) and PM2.
He is also director of Instruct and Life Sciences Director at Diamond Light Source.