Max Perutz
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Max Perutz was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist who lived from 1914 to 2002 and made fundamental contributions to understanding the structure of proteins at the atomic level. His work helped establish how scientists could visualize and comprehend the molecular machines that perform essential functions in living organisms.
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- Born
- 1914-05-19
- Died
- 2002-02-06
- Works
- 3
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- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,061x
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- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
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- Welcome to the Tidyverse
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Max Ferdinand Perutz (19 May 1914 – 6 February 2002) 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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1914 births2002 deaths20th-century Austrian biologists20th-century British biologists20th-century British physicistsAlumni of Peterhouse, CambridgeAustrian biophysicistsAustrian Nobel laureatesBritish crystallographersBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyBritish molecular biologistsBritish Nobel laureates