| Peter Wright | |
| Birth Name: | Peter Edwin Wright |
| Birth Place: | New Zealand |
| Fields: | Biophysics |
| Workplaces: | Scripps Research University of Sydney |
| Alma Mater: | University of Auckland |
| Thesis Title: | Physico-chemical properties of metal ion sites in cuproproteins: an investigation of selected copper(II) complexes |
| Thesis Url: | https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/1373 |
| Thesis Year: | 1972 |
| Doctoral Advisors: | )--> |
| Spouse: | Jane Dyson |
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Peter Edwin Wright is a scientist, an NMR spectroscopist and a professor at the Scripps Research Institute.[1] He serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Molecular Biology.[2]
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[3] with a thesis on the physico-chemical properties of metal ion sites in cuproproteins: an investigation of selected copper(II) complexes.[4]
From 1976 to 1984, he was employed by the University of Sydney. Since 1984, he has been employed at the Scripps Research Institute.
Wright is a proponent of the theory of conformational sampling being of importance to enzyme catalysis and intrinsically disordered proteins, which is opposed to the theory of electrostatic preorganization.
Wright is married to Jane Dyson.[5]