Max Perutz

Max Perutz

OM CH CBE FRS
Max Perutz; OM CH CBE FRS
	Perutz in 1962
Born	Max Ferdinand Perutz; 19 May 1914; Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died	6 February 2002 (aged 87); Cambridge, England
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Vienna (BSc); University of Cambridge (PhD);
Known for	Heme-containing proteins
Spouse	Gisela Clara Peiser (m. 1942; 2 children)
Awards	Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1962); EMBO Member (1964); Wilhelm Exner Medal (1967); Sir Hans Krebs Medal (1968); Royal Medal (1971); Copley Medal (1979);
	Scientific career
Fields	Molecular biology; Crystallography
Institutions	University of Cambridge; Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Doctoral advisor	John Desmond Bernal
Doctoral students	Francis Crick; John Keith Moffat;

Max Ferdinand Perutz OM CH CBE FRS (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 MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), fourteen of whose scientists have won Nobel Prizes.

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