John Craig Wiley

Don Craig Wiley, 1944-2001, American crystallographer.

Wiley's achievements in the field of crystallography include the imaging of:

• Class I and class II major histocompatibility complex proteins
• The influenza haemagglutinin protein
• haemagglutinin trimer
• HLA-A2

Famous quote: "I'm sorry, but I just don't understand anything in biology unless I know what it looks like."

Wiley owned a British racing green-coloured Aston Martin.

Don Wiley disappeared on 15 November 2001; his body was found in the Mississippi some time later and his death was ruled to be an accident.