Max Perutz

Who is this?

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 MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), fourteen of whose scientists have won Nobel Prizes.

Career

1. 1914
   Born
2. 1954
   Member of Royal Society
3. 1962
   Won Nobel Prize in Chemistry
4. 1971
   Won Royal Medal
5. 1979
   Won Copley Medal
6. 2002
   Passed away
7. Member of German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
8. Member of German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
9. Won Commander of the Order of the British Empire
10. Won Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
11. Notable work: Is Science Necessary? Essays on Science and Scientists

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Vienna
• •Citizenship: United Kingdom, Austria
• •Known as: biologist, molecular biologist, chemist, university teacher