Max Perutz

Also known as Max Ferdinand Perutz

Austrian-born British molecular biologist (1914-2002)

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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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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Germany
Active from: 1873-03-19
Active to: 1916-05-11

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SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,061x
A smooth particle mesh Ewald method
· 1995 · cited 21,167x
Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,960x
Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 19,327x
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,515x

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“Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?”

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Commons category: Max Perutz
date of birth: 1914-05-19
date of death: 2002-02-06
Erdős number: 7
name in native language: Max Ferdinand Perutz
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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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