Max Perutz

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Max Perutz was an Austrian-British molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering X-ray crystallography studies of hemoglobin and helping to found the field of molecular biology.

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instanceOf Nobel laureate in Chemistry
biophysicist
human
molecular biologist
awardReceived Copley Medal
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (through its scientists)
surface form: Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Order of Merit
surface form: Order of Merit (United Kingdom)

Royal Medal
birthDate 1914-05-19
birthPlace Vienna
surface form: Vienna, Austria-Hungary
causeOfDeath cancer
coFounded MRC LMB
surface form: Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology
countryOfCitizenship Austria
United Kingdom
deathDate 2002-02-06
educatedAt Cambridge University
surface form: University of Cambridge

University of Vienna
employer Cavendish Laboratory
surface form: Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Medical Research Council
surface form: Medical Research Council (United Kingdom)
familyName Max Perutz self-linksurface differs
surface form: Perutz
fieldOfWork Röntgen radiation
surface form: X-ray crystallography

biochemistry
molecular biology
structural biology
fullName Max Perutz self-linksurface differs
surface form: Max Ferdinand Perutz
givenName Max
knownFor elucidating the structure of hemoglobin
founding contributions to molecular biology
pioneering X-ray crystallographic studies of hemoglobin
languageSpoken English
German
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Royal Society
nobelPrizeCategory Chemistry
nobelPrizeMotivation for their studies of the structures of globular proteins
nobelPrizeYear 1962
notableStudent Hugh Huxley
John Kendrew
positionHeld Chairman of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Head of the MRC Unit for Molecular Biology in Cambridge
researchSubject allosteric regulation of hemoglobin
hemoglobin
protein structure
residence Cambridge, England
sharedNobelPrizeWith John Kendrew
spouse Gisela Clara Mathilde Peiser
usedMethod X-ray diffraction
isomorphous replacement in crystallography
workInstitution MRC LMB
surface form: Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge

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Lawrence Bragg notableStudent Max Perutz
MRC LMB notableScientist Max Perutz
John Desmond Bernal influenced Max Perutz
Aaron Klug influencedBy Max Perutz
LMB hasNotableResearcher Max Perutz
LMB hasNobelLaureate Max Perutz