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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.
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Apr 1, 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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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Max Perutz and the Secret of Life is a definitive biography of one of the handful of men and women who helped to lay the foundations of molecular biology and inaugurate the brave new world we’ve ...
Mar 29, 2002 · Max Perutz died on 6 February in Cambridge, UK, where he had worked for 65 years, with only a single interruption during World War II. He was a scientist of great distinction, internationally recognized as the founding father of modern x-ray protein crystallography, through his demonstration that the introduction of a heavy atom into a protein molecule allowed the solution of the x-ray ...
