death_date nationality fields birth_date alt alma_mater death_place image_size spouse citizenship name caption birth_place known_for doctoral_advisor thesis_year workplaces article_title thesis_title
16 march 2014 20px american chemistry 28 january 1937 donald m. crothers -lrb- 18 june 2011 -rrb- yale university university of cambridge ucsd new haven , connecticut 120x150px leena kareoja-crothers 20px american donald morris crothers don crothers , photographed 18 june 2011 fatehgarh , india nucleic acid structure and function bruno zimm 1963 yale university donald crothers
 the denaturation of helical polynucleotides
donald crothers

donald crothers was a professor of chemistry at yale university in the united states .
he was best known for his work on nucleic acid structure and function .
