Max Perutz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Max Perutz

Austrian-born British molecular biologist

Date of Birth: 19-May-1914

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 06-Feb-2002

Profession: chemist, biologist, university teacher, biochemist, biophysicist, crystallographer, molecular biologist

Nationality: Austria, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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 Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), fourteen of whose scientists have won Nobel Prizes.
Perutz's contributions to molecular biology in Cambridge are documented in The History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 4 (1870 to 1990) published by the Cambridge University Press in 1992.