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Born	28 February 1930
Died	5 December 2017 (aged 87)
Alma mater	King's College London Birkbeck, University of London
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society

John Finch FRS (28 February 1930 – 5 December 2017) was a British X-ray crystallographer and electron microscopist. After working and receiving a PhD at Birkbeck College London, where he was hired by Rosalind Franklin, he worked at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge from 1962 on biological structures and macromolecules, including of nucleosomes and of viruses such as tobacco mosaic virus.

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