Max Perutz

Max Perutz
Perutz in 1962
Born
Max Ferdinand Perutz

19 May 1914
Died6 February 2002(2002-02-06) (aged 87)
Cambridge, England
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
Known forHeme-containing proteins
SpouseGisela Clara Peiser (m. 1942; 2 children)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsMolecular biology
Crystallography
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Doctoral advisorJohn Desmond Bernal
Doctoral students

Max Ferdinand Perutz OM CH CBE FRS (19 May 1914 – 6 February 2002)[4] was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with John Kendrew, for their studies of the structures of haemoglobin and myoglobin. He went on to win the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1971 and the Copley Medal in 1979. At Cambridge he founded and chaired (1962–79) The MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), fourteen of whose scientists have won Nobel Prizes.

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