Jane S. Richardson

Jane Shelby Richardson (born 1941 in Teaneck, New Jersey) is a professor of biochemistry at Duke University. She is known for pioneering the revolutionary development in protein depiction, known as Ribbon Diagrams or Richardson Diagrams ^[1].

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The breakthrough in her studies arose from the protein structure studies performed by herself, her husband (David Richardson) and a team of scientists. During their crystallographic studies, Jane Richardson had come to realise that a general classification scheme can be developed from the recurring structural motifs of the proteins ^[2]

Richardson earned a B.A. degree in philosophy from Swarthmore College and, without the benefit of a Ph.D., has become a biophysicist, earned a MacArthur fellowship and become a member of the National Academy of Sciences. She and her husband maintain the Richardson Laboratory at Duke University

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