Peter Wright (scientist)

Peter Edwin Wright is a scientist, an NMR spectroscopist and a professor at the Scripps Research Institute.^[2][3][4] He served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Molecular Biology for 33 years.^[5][6]

Peter Wright
Born	Peter Edwin Wright New Zealand
Alma mater	University of Auckland
Spouse	Jane Dyson[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Biophysics
Institutions	Scripps Research University of Sydney
Thesis	Physico-chemical properties of metal ion sites in cuproproteins: an investigation of selected copper(II) complexes (1972)
Website	www.scripps.edu/faculty/wright

Education and early life

Wright is from New Zealand and studied at the University of Auckland. He graduated in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science degree followed by a Master of Science degree in 1969. He completed his PhD in chemistry in 1972^[7] with a thesis on the physico-chemical properties of metal ion sites in cuproproteins: an investigation of selected copper(II) complexes.^[8]

Career and research

From 1976 to 1984, he was employed by the University of Sydney. Since 1984, he has been employed at the Scripps Research Institute.^[7][9]

Wright is a proponent of the theory of conformational sampling being of importance to enzyme catalysis and intrinsically disordered proteins,^[10][11][12] which is opposed to the theory of electrostatic preorganization.

Personal life

Wright is married to Jane Dyson.^[1]