The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962
Awarded on: 1962-11-01
"for their studies of the structures of globular proteins"
Affiliations:
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology – Cambridge, United Kingdom
Max Ferdinand Perutz
Born: 1914-05-19 in Vienna, Austria
Gender: male
Field: Austrian-born British molecular biologist (1914–2002)
Biography
Max Ferdinand Perutz 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.