PHYSICIST

John Kendrew

1917 - 1997

Photo of John Kendrew

Icon of person John Kendrew

Sir John Cowdery Kendrew, (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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Kendrew is the 154th most popular physicist (up from 240th in 2019), the 404th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 647th in 2019) and the 27th most popular British Physicist.

John Kendrew was a British biochemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1962 with Max Perutz for their work in determining the structures of proteins.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of John Kendrew by language

Loading...

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Kendrew ranks 154 out of 851. Before him are John Bardeen, Nicolaas Bloembergen, George Paget Thomson, Walter Houser Brattain, Henry Moseley, and Laura Bassi. After him are Javier Solana, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Frits Zernike, Felix Bloch, Hans Georg Dehmelt, and Johann Jakob Balmer.

Most Popular Physicists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, John Kendrew ranks 15. Before him are Ilya Prigogine, Frederica of Hanover, James Rainwater, Christian de Duve, Ella Fitzgerald, and Marsha Hunt. After him are Dean Martin, Eric Hobsbawm, Herbert A. Hauptman, I. M. Pei, Robert Mitchum, and Ernest Borgnine. Among people deceased in 1997, John Kendrew ranks 16. Before him are Alexander R. Todd, Mobutu Sese Seko, Gianni Versace, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Victor Vasarely, and Bảo Đại. After him are Sviatoslav Richter, Paulo Freire, Melvin Calvin, The Notorious B.I.G., Robert Mitchum, and Hugo Gunckel Lüer.

Others Born in 1917

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1997

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Kendrew ranks 404 out of 8,785. Before him are Ælfweard of Wessex (904), Daniel Day-Lewis (1957), Gary Oldman (1958), Henry Moseley (1887), Claude Rains (1889), and John Galsworthy (1867). After him are Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia (1945), Ian Fleming (1908), Nigel Farage (1964), Alfred North Whitehead (1861), John Hawkins (1532), and John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford (1389).

Others born in United Kingdom

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Kendrew ranks 27. Before him are C. F. Powell (1903), William Henry Bragg (1862), Thomas Young (1773), Peter Higgs (1929), Roger Penrose (1931), and Henry Moseley (1887). After him are James Jeans (1877), David Brewster (1781), Andrew Huxley (1917), John Cockcroft (1897), William Shockley (1910), and C. P. Snow (1905).

British born Physicists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous