Max Perutz
19 May 1914 – 6 February 2002
Max Perutz was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist who spent his career at Cambridge using X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of haemoglobin. He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John Kendrew and led the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, which he helped establish. He also wrote widely on science for general readers.
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Life events
He was born into a family of textile manufacturers.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThere he began the X-ray crystallographic study of haemoglobin that occupied him for decades.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe was released later the same year and returned to Britain.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe investigated pykrete, a mixture of ice and wood pulp proposed for a floating airbase.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe unit later grew into the Laboratory of Molecular Biology.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgAttaching heavy atoms to haemoglobin crystals made the phase problem tractable.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe prize recognised their studies of the structures of globular proteins.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe led the Cambridge laboratory until stepping down to return to full-time research.
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