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May 19, 1914 Vienna, Austria Died on 06 Feb 2002 (aged 87)
Austrian-born British molecular biologist
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About Max Perutz
- Max Ferdinand Perutz (19 May 1914 – 6 February 2002) 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 Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), fourteen of whose scientists have won Nobel Prizes.
- Perutz's contributions to molecular biology in Cambridge are documented in The History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 4 (1870 to 1990) published by the Cambridge University Press in 1992.
