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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 The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, 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 published by the Cambridge University Press in 1992.
BornMax Ferdinand Perutz, 19 May 1914, Vienna, Austria-Hungary
DiedFebruary 6, 2002, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
NationalityBritish
FieldsMolecular biology, Crystallography
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge, Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Alma materUniversity of Vienna (BSc), University of Cambridge (PhD)
Doctoral studentsFrancis Crick, John Keith Moffat
Known forHeme-containing proteins
Notable awardsNobel Prize for Chemistry (1962), EMBO Member (1964), Wilhelm Exner Medal (1967), Sir Hans Krebs Medal (1968), Royal Medal (1971), Copley Medal (1979)
SpouseGisela Clara Peiser (m. 1942, 2 children)

About Max Perutz

Biologist Max Perutz was born in Austria on May 19, 1914. He dies at the age of 87, on February 6, 2002.

A molecular biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1962 for his research on hemoglobin structures. He also received the Royal Society's Royal Medal in 1971 and the Copley Medal in 1979.

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Max Perutz before becoming famous

Max Perutz was born in the Zodiac sign Taurus (The Bull), and 1914 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Tiger (兎).

When Nazi Germany conquered Austria prior to World War II, he was banished because of his Jewish origin.

Achievement of Max Perutz

During his latter years, he attempted to find a cure for Huntington illness.

Max Perutz's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He and his wife Gisela Clara Peiser, whom he married in 1942, had two children.

Max Perutz Collabed with

He was a harsh critic of Novelist Richard Dawkins' anti-religious rhetoric, believing it to be harmful to science.

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Latest information about Max Perutz updated on March 10 2023.