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John Kendrew

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Also known as John Cowdery Kendrew, Sir John Cowdery Kendrew, Kendrew, John C., J. C. Kendrew, John C. Kendrew, Kendrew, J.

English biochemist and crystallographer (1917–1997)

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John C. Kendrew was born on 24 March 1917 and died on 23 August 1997. He held an Erdős number of 7.

Kendrew received one Nobel Prize. His work is recognized in the Royal Society collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Chemistry collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1962

    “for their studies of the structures of globular proteins”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
John
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Place of birth
Oxford
Place of death
Cambridge
Occupation
researcher
Educated at
University of Cambridge
Employer
University of Oxford
Languages spoken
English language
Doctoral advisor
Max Perutz
Student of
Max Perutz
Doctoral student
Hugh Huxley
Field of work
crystallography
Image
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member of
National Academy of Sciences
Commons category
John Kendrew
date of birth
1917-03-24
date of death
1997-08-23
Erdős number
7
described by source
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
nominated for
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
name in native language
Sir John Cowdery Kendrew
maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics
interested in
biochemistry
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Encyclopedic overview

Sir John Cowdery Kendrew, CBE FRS (24 March 1917 – 23 August 1997) was an English biochemist, crystallographer, and science administrator. Kendrew shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Max Perutz, for their work at the Cavendish Laboratory to investigate the structure of haem-containing proteins.

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