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Max Perutz. 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.
May 15, 2024 · Max Ferdinand Perutz (born May 19, 1914, Vienna, Austria—died February 6, 2002, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England) was an Austrian-born British biochemist, corecipient of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his X-ray diffraction analysis of the structure of hemoglobin, the protein that transports oxygen from the lungs to the tissues via blood cells.
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Feb 6, 2002 · Max Ferdinand Perutz. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962. Born: 19 May 1914, Vienna, Austria. Died: 6 February 2002, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Affiliation at the time of the award: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Prize motivation: “for their studies of the structures of globular proteins”. Prize share: 1/2.
Max Ferdinand Perutz was born in Vienna on May 19th, 1914. Both his parents, Hugo Perutz and Dely Goldschmidt, came from families of textile manufacturers who had made their fortune in the 19th century by the introduction of mechanical spinning and weaving into the Austrian monarchy. Max Perutz was first educated at the Theresianum, a grammar ...
Jun 2, 2009 · Max Perutz and the Secret of Life. Woodbury, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, ix + 368 pp, $39. Subjectivity. It has no place in the popular image of science, yet its role is keenly felt by scientists and the historians and humanists who study them. The importance of the personal in an age of bureaucracy, of the foibles and the virtues ...
Feb 21, 2002 · Max Perutz, who died in Cambridge, UK, on 6 February, was one of the principal founders of molecular biology. He was the first person to find out how to determine protein structure by X-ray ...
Feb 8, 2002 · Dr. Max Perutz, whose success in elucidating the structure of the hemoglobin molecule helped give birth to the field of molecular biology and brought him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1962, died ...
