Perutz, Max Ferdinand#
b. Vienna, May 19, 1914, chemist, Nobel prize winner. Trained in Austria, from 1936 in Cambridge (United Kingdom), 1941 interned in Canada, from 1946 research grant from Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), 1947-1979 university professor in Cambridge. 1953-1960 together with the chemist Sir J. C. Kendrew, determined the spatial structure of a long sequence of protein molecules (especially haemoglobin) with the help of refracted X-rays. 1962 Nobel prize for chemistry. Honorary doctorates from several universities, including Salzburg and Vienna; Austrian Decoration for Science and Art 1967.
Works#
Is Science Necessary?, 1989; Mechanisms of Cooperativity and Allosteric Regulation in Proteins, 1990; Protein Structure, 1992; I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier, 1999 (Ich haette Sie schon frueher aergern sollen. Aufsaetze ueber Wiss., Wissenschaftler und die Menschheit, 1999).