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
John Cowdery Kendrew
Born: 1917-03-24 in Oxford, United Kingdom
Gender: male
Field: English biochemist and crystallographer
Biography
Sir John Cowdery Kendrew, was an English biochemist, crystallographer, and science administrator. Kendrew shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Max Perutz, for their work at the Cavendish Laboratory to investigate the structure of haem-containing proteins.