Max Perutz
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.
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- Born in
- Vienna
- Educated at
- University of CambridgeUniversity of Vienna
- Awards
- 🏆 Copley Medal🏆 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 William Lawrence Bragg
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Francis Crick
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1914
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