Biography of max perutz

Austrian-born British molecular biologist (1914–2002)

Max Ferdinand PerutzOM CH CBE FRS (19 May 1914 – 6 February 2002)^[3] 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.

Early life and education

Perutz was born in Vienna, the son of Adele "Dely" (Goldschmidt) and Hugo Perutz, a textile manufacturer.^[4] His parents were Jewish by ancestry, but had baptised Perutz in the Catholic religion.^[5] Although Perutz rejected religion and was an atheist in his later years, he was against offending others for their religious beliefs.^[6]

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