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Don Craig Wiley

Life status
Confirmed deceased
Profession
Biologist (structural biology of immune and viral proteins)
Also recorded as
Don C. Wiley · Don Wiley
Born
Not recorded
Age
Not stated in the sources reached
Died
2001–2001 · known to the range
Organisations
Harvard University, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, professor
Works
None catalogued yet

In plain words

Biologist (structural biology of immune and viral proteins)

Approved revision 2 · evidence checked 12 Nov 2026 · snapshot af659ca975fc · history · Suggest a correction

Biography

Don C. Wiley, a Harvard University professor, is the person whose disappearance in Memphis and death the Harvard Gazette reported on 17 January 2002; the Crossref records of his papers list the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University.

Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University: the affiliation listed for him in his papers of 2000 and 2001 (Crossref records).

Biologist who published X-ray crystal structures of human histocompatibility (HLA) molecules and of influenza virus haemagglutinins, e.g. in The Journal of Immunology (2000) and PNAS (2001), according to Crossref records. Completeness of the publication list is not claimed.

First reported missing by the Memphis, Tennessee, police on 16 November 2001.

His body was recovered from the Mississippi River on 20 December 2001.

Died between his disappearance on 16 November 2001 and the recovery of his body on 20 December 2001; no read source gives an exact date of death.

The Shelby County Medical Examiner's Office issued a report finding that an accidental fall from a bridge into the Mississippi River was the probable cause of death, as reported by the Harvard Gazette. The examiner's report itself was not read. Attributed

A medical examiner's report gave a probable cause of death (reported by the Harvard Gazette). Attributed

Research field: molecular, cell and structural biology, documented for Don C. Wiley (X-ray structures of immune and viral proteins; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University).

Works

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