Max Perutz(1914)
ChemistryMax 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 (1962–79) The MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), fourteen of whose scientists have won Nobel Prizes.
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Awards & Recognition
1962
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Career Path
Award progression over time
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Co-winners
Shared the same award in the same year
Education
University of Cambridge
University of Vienna
Theresianum
Peterhouse
Doctoral Advisors
William Lawrence BraggJohn Desmond BernalFrancis CrickJohn KendrewDavid Mervyn BlowJohn Keith Moffat
Career Timeline
University of York?–present
University of Cambridge?–present
Academy Memberships
National Academy of Sciences (US)American Academy of Arts and SciencesRoyal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesPontifical Academy of Sciences
Related Laureates
Other winners of the same award(s)
FS
Frederick Sanger
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1980)
GW
Greg Winter
Copley Medal (2025)
DH
Demis Hassabis
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2024)
MR
Martin Rees
Wolf Prize in Physics (2024)
KB
K. Barry Sharpless
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2022)
John B. Goodenough
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2019)
JE
John Ellis
Copley Medal (2019)
Richard Henderson
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2017)
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