I just found out about Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, who is the founder of bioinformatics. Also (and that’s how I came to know her work) the inventor of the one-letter code for amino acids so, for example, ...Asp Glu Ile Ala Lys... becomes ...DEIAK... https://www.whatisbiotechnology.org/index.php/people/summary/Dayhoff

This allowed her to reduce the size of the data files needed to describe the sequence of amino acids in a protein, which I can imagine was a big deal in the 1960s, when hard drives had MB capacities

She published in 1965 the "Atlas of Protein Sequences and Structure", containing all known protein sequences. Turns out that @NASA has a pdf available!

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19660014530.pdf

I beg you to read the preface, it's just three pages long

"living things were thought to be so very complex and intricate that there surely was no hope of fully "understanding" them in all their chemical detail..."

"Who, if he really comprehended the difficulty of the problem, would dare to think of man's ever knowing the detailed structure of a protein, for example, much less be able to synthesize it?"

Kudos to Margaret Oakley Dayhoff!!. We've come a long way thanks to people like her.