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Max Perutz

1914 - 2002

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max Perutz is the 176th most popular chemist (up from 198th in 2019), the 168th most popular biography from Austria (up from 264th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Austrian Chemist.

Max Perutz was most famous for his work in protein crystallography and for his discovery of the alpha helix structure of proteins.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Max Perutz ranks 176 out of 602. Before him are Derek Barton, Richard F. Heck, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, Akira Suzuki, William Standish Knowles, and Alan J. Heeger. After him are Robert Curl, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Felix Hoffmann, Peter J. Ratcliffe, Marcellin Berthelot, and Ernest Solvay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Max Perutz ranks 30. Before him are Willi Stoph, Bohumil Hrabal, Lída Baarová, Abd al-Karim Qasim, Joe DiMaggio, and Joe Louis. After him are Aribert Heim, Demetrios I of Constantinople, William Vickrey, Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover, Arthur Kennedy, and Boris Christoff. Among people deceased in 2002, Max Perutz ranks 27. Before him are B. D. Jatti, Fritz Walter, Ivan Illich, Rod Steiger, Linda Lovelace, and Alexander Prokhorov. After him are Victor Weisskopf, Nándor Hidegkuti, Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Ruth Handler, Edsger W. Dijkstra, and Geraldine of Albania.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Max Perutz ranks 168 out of 1,424. Before him are Leopold III, Duke of Austria (1351), Ingeborg Bachmann (1926), Rudolf I of Bohemia (1281), Fritz Kreisler (1875), Eric Kandel (1929), and Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria (1529). After him are Otto Weininger (1880), Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (1643), Ernst Gombrich (1909), Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria (1751), Lothar Rendulic (1887), and Maria Theresa of Austria (1816).

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Among CHEMISTS In Austria

Among chemists born in Austria, Max Perutz ranks 4. Before him are Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865), Fritz Pregl (1869), and Richard Kuhn (1900). After him are Martin Karplus (1930), Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858), Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein (1740), Carl Djerassi (1923), and Ida Freund (1863).

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