Max Perutz date of birth:
May 19, 1914
How old was Max Perutz when died?
87
Where was Max Perutz born?
Vienna, Austria
When did Max Perutz die?
February 6, 2002
Max Perutz body shape:
Average
What color are Max Perutz's eyes?
Brown - Dark
What color is Max Perutz's hair?
Black
Is Max Perutz gay or straight?
Straight
What religion is Max Perutz?
Jewish
What is Max Perutz's ethnicity?
White
What is Max Perutz nationality?
British
What is Max Perutz's occupation?
Scientist
Short Biography
Max Ferdinand Perutz OM CH CBE FRS (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 Laboratory of Molecular Biology, 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.