Max Perutz Scientist

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 hemoglobin 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 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 (1870 to 1990) published by the Cambridge University Press in 1992.

Personal facts

Birth date	May 19, 1914
Birth name	Max Ferdinand Perutz
Birth place	Austria-Hungary , Vienna , Austria
Nationality	United Kingdom
Date of death	February 06, 2002
Place of death	Cambridgeshire , England , Cambridge
Education	Peterhouse Cambridge University of Vienna
Known for	Heme