Max Perutz - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1962
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Max Perutz

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1962
for their studies of the structures of globular proteins
Together with: John Kendrew
Citizenship
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Austria Austria United Kingdom United Kingdom
Languages
English, German
date of birth
5/19/1914
place of birth
Vienna
date of death
2/6/2002
place of death
Cambridge
Lived
87 years
member of
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1981
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1970
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 12/5/1984
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 3/18/1954
  • European Molecular Biology Organization
  • Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
  • French Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
employer
  • University of York
  • University of Cambridge
educated at
  • University of Vienna
  • Theresianum
  • University of Cambridge
  • Peterhouse
doctoral student
  • John Keith Moffat
  • John Kendrew
  • David Mervyn Blow
  • Francis Crick
notable work
  • Is Science Necessary? Essays on Science and Scientists
field of work
  • chemistry
  • molecular biology
  • biochemistry
occupation
  • chemist
  • biophysicist
  • crystallographer
  • molecular biologist
  • university teacher
  • biochemist
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