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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.
Biographical. Max Ferdinand Perutz was born in Vienna on May 19th, 1914. Both his parents, Hugo Perutz and Dely Goldschmidt, came from families of textile manufacturers who had made their fortune in the 19th century by the introduction of mechanical spinning and weaving into the Austrian monarchy.
Together with John Kendrew, Max Perutz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1962, and his work launched a new era of medicine. Beyond intellectual brilliance, Max Perutz stands out as an ambassador for science, a humanist, and as an inspiration for young scientists.
Feb 6, 2002 · Facts. Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Max Ferdinand Perutz. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962. Born: 19 May 1914, Vienna, Austria. Died: 6 February 2002, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Affiliation at the time of the award: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
May 15, 2024 · Max Ferdinand Perutz was an Austrian-born British biochemist, corecipient of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his X-ray diffraction analysis of the structure of hemoglobin, the protein that transports oxygen from the lungs to the tissues via blood cells. He shared the award with British.
Max Perutz (1914 – 2002) In 1936, Max Perutz arrived at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, to work in the field of X-ray crystallography. This move would lead to him becoming a pioneer in the new field of molecular biology, co-founding a world-class research laboratory and developing a technique to unlock the structures of proteins.
For being the first to successfully identify the structures of complex proteins, Max Perutz and John Kendrew were rewarded with the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962. Perhaps fate ensured that Perutz and Kendrew were joined by a very familiar face who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine that year.
Feb 8, 2002 · Max Perutz, one of the founding fathers of molecular biology, died early on Wednesday 6 February at the age of 87. Max Perutz was the creator of X-ray protein crystallography, demonstrating that by introducing a heavy atom in a protein molecule it was possible to determine its 3-D structure.
Feb 21, 2002 · Max Perutz, who died in Cambridge, UK, on 6 February, was one of the principal founders of molecular biology. He was the first person to find out how to determine protein structure by X-ray...
Max Perutz and the Secret of Life is a definitive biography of one of the handful of men and women who helped to lay the foundations of molecular biology and inaugurate the brave new...
