!!!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).


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