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Alexander Rich (left) and Frank A. Cotton peer through a mechanism of the x-ray diffraction machine they use to study molecules at the Center for Macromolecular Structure at MIT. Original caption: "From the Office of Public Relations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology RELEASE ON RECEIPT. REGIONAL CENTER FOR MOLECULAR STUDY ESTABLISHED // Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have organized a Center for Macromolecular Structure to help biologists, chemists and medical researchers throughout New England map and study the atom-by-atom structure of protein and nucleic acid molecules. Shown above with equipment used to expose protein and nucleic acid crystals to probing by x-ray diffraction are the two M.I.T. scientists who organized the center -- Dr. Alexander Rich (left), professor of biophysics and Dr. F. Albert Cotton, professor of chemistry."