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M AX F ERDINAND P ERUTZ 1962 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry for their studies of the structures of globular proteins. Background Born: 1914 Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria Residence: Great Britain Affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, in Vienna, Austria Featured Internet Links Prize Co-recipient: Sir John Cowdery Kendrew Search WWW Search The Nobel Prize Internet Archive Links added by Nobel Internet Archive visitors Max Ferdinand Perutz – Biography (submitted by Chinnappan Baskar Max's lab home (submitted by Dan Max Perutz 1914 - 2002 from The Laboratory of Molecular Biology (submitted by Dan LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF M.F. PERUTZ (submitted by Dave) Max Ferdinand Perutz 1914-2002 (submitted by Davis) About Perutz, Max Ferdinand (submitted by Johns) their studies of the structures of globular proteins. (submitted by Sardina) Max F. Perutz – Biography (submitted by Carlos) Back to The Nobel Prize Internet Archive Literature Peace Chemistry ... Medicine We always welcome your feedback and comments

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Perutz, Max Ferdinand Max F. Perutz, left, with his colleague John C. Kendrew, 1962 (b. May 19, 1914, Vienna, Austria), Austrian-born British biochemist, corecipient of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his X-ray diffraction analysis of the structure of hemoglobin, the protein that transports oxygen from the lungs to the tissues via blood cells. He shared the award with British biochemist John C. Kendrew Perutz was educated at the University of Vienna and at the University of Cambridge, where he received his Ph.D. in 1940. While at Cambridge he began research at the Cavendish Laboratory (1937), taking the first X-ray diffraction pictures of hemoglobin crystals and working with the most powerful tool for examining the structure of hemoglobinX-ray crystallography. In 1947, along with Kendrew, Perutz founded the Medical Research Council Unit for Molecular Biology at Cambridge. There the two men continued their investigation of hemoproteins, with Kendrew trying to determine the molecular structure of myoglobin (muscular hemoglobin) and Perutz concentrating on the hemoglobin molecule itself. By 1959 Perutz had shown that the hemoglobin molecule is composed of four separate polypeptide chains that form a tetrameric structure, with four heme groups near the molecule's surface. Perutz subsequently showed that in oxygenated hemoglobin the four chains are rearranged, a discovery that led to the full determination of the molecular mechanism of oxygen transport and release by hemoglobin. Perutz was director of the Unit for Molecular Biology from its inception until 1962. From 1962 until his retirement in 1979, he was chairman of the Medical Research Council molecular biology laboratory (at the School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge).

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Max Perutz From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Max Ferdinand Perutz May 19 February 6 ) was an Austrian British molecular biologist He was born in Vienna in 1914. In 1936 he became a research student at the Cavendish Laboratory in a crystallography group directed by J. Bernal , and remained in Cambridge subsequently. During World War II, he was asked to think of a way to improve the structural qualities of ice for Project Habbakuk and invented the mixture of ice and woodpulp known as pykrete In 1953 Perutz showed that the diffracted rays from protein crystals could be phased by comparing the patterns from crystals of the protein with and without heavy atoms attached. In 1959 he determined the molecular structure of the protein hemoglobin , which transports oxygen in the blood, using this method. In 1962 he received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry , with John Kendrew He established the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge, England .in 1962 and was chairman until 1979. He remained active in research to the end of his life. His son Robin Perutz is a professor of chemistry at The University of York in England The Campus Vienna Biocenter Max F. Perutz Laboratories

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Perutz, Max Ferdinand Max Ferdinand Perutz was born in Vienna on May 19th, 1914. Both his parents, Hugo Perutz and Dely Goldschmidt, came from families of textile manufacturers who had made their fortune in the 19th century by the introduction of mechanical spinning and weaving into the Austrian monarchy. He was sent to school at the Theresianum, a grammar school derived from an officers academy of the days of the empress Maria Theresia, and his parents suggested that he should study law in preparation for entering the family business. However, a good schoolmaster awakened his interest in chemistry, and he had no difficulty in persuading his parents to let him study the subject of his choice. In 1932, he entered Vienna University, where he, in his own words, "wasted five semesters in an exacting course of inorganic analysis". His curiosity was aroused, however, by organic chemistry, and especially by a course of organic biochemistry, given by F. von Wessely, in which Sir F. G. Hopkins' work at Cambridge was mentioned. It was here that Perutz decided that Cambridge was the place where he wanted to work for his Ph.D. thesis. With financial help from his father he became a research student at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge under J. D. Bernal in September 1936, and he has stayed at Cambridge ever since. After

30. Nobel Laureates In Chemistry By Alphabetical Order perutz, max ferdinand, 1962. Polanyi, John C. 1986. Pople, John A. 1998. Porter,Lord George, 1967. Pregl, Fritz, 1923. Prelog, Vladimir, 1975 http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Sciences/Chemistry/Aboutchemistry/AlphaNobel

Themes Science Chemistry About Chemistry Generalities Name Year Awarded Alder, Kurt Altman, Sidney Anfinsen, Christian B. Arrhenius, Svante August Aston, Francis William Baeyer, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf Von Barton, Sir Derek H. R. Berg, Paul Bergius, Friedrich Bosch, Carl Boyer, Paul D. Brown, Herbert C. Buchner, Eduard Butenandt, Adolf Friedrich Johann Calvin, Melvin Cech, Thomas R. Corey, Elias James Cornforth, Sir John Warcup Cram, Donald J. Crutzen, Paul Curie, Marie Curl, Robert F., Jr. Debye, Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus De Hevesy, George Deisenhofer, Johann Diels, Otto Paul Hermann Eigen, Manfred Ernst, Richard R. Euler-chelpin, Hans Karl August Simon Von Fischer, Ernst Otto Fischer, Hans Fischer, Hermann Emil Flory, Paul J. Fukui, Kenichi Giauque, William Francis Gilbert, Walter Grignard, Victor Haber, Fritz Hahn, Otto Harden, Sir Arthur Hassel, Odd Hauptman, Herbert A. Haworth, Sir Walter Norman Heeger, Alan J. Herschbach, Dudley R. Herzberg, Gerhard Heyrovsky, Jaroslav Hinshelwood, Sir Cyril Norman Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot Hoff, Jacobus Henricus Van't

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Add to Favorites General Encyclopedia Legal ... Law forum Search Word: Visit our Law forums Labor Law Accidents Law Bankruptcy Law Business Law ... Tax Law Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck April 23 October 4 ) was a German physicist who is considered to be the inventor of quantum theory Born in Kiel , Planck started his physics studies at Munich University in , graduating in in Berlin . He returned to Munich in to teach at the university, and moved to Kiel in . There he married Marie Mack in . In , he moved to Berlin, where from on he held the chair of theoretical physics. In , he discovered a new fundamental constant, which is named Planck's constant , and is, for example, used to calculate the energy of a photon . Also that year, he described his own set of units of measurement based on fundamental physical constants . One year later, he discovered the law of heat radiation, which is named Planck's law of black body radiation . This law became the basis of quantum theory , which emerged ten years later in cooperation with Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr From to , Planck acted as the head of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft German Physical Society ). His wife died in 1909, and one year later he married Marga von Hoesslin. In

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Max Perutz [Categories: Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners, Molecular biologists, 2002 deaths, 1914 births] Max Ferdinand Perutz (May 19 1914 - February 6 2002) was an (A mountainous republic in central Europe; under the Habsburgs (1278-1918) Austria maintained control of the Holy Roman Empire and was a leader in European politics until the 19th century) Austria n (A biologist who studies the structure and activity of macromolecules essential to life) molecular biologist He was born in (The capital and largest city of Austria; located on the Danube in northeastern Austria; was the home of Beethoven and Brahms and Haydn and Mozart and Schubert and Strauss) Vienna in 1914. In 1936 he became a research student at the (Click link for more info and facts about Cavendish Laboratory) Cavendish Laboratory in a (The branch of science that studies the formation and structure of crystals) crystallography group directed by (Click link for more info and facts about J. Bernal) J. Bernal , and remained in Cambridge subsequently. During World War II, he was asked to think of a way to improve the structural qualities of ice for

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Max Ferdinand Perutz Max Ferdinand Perutz was born in Vienna in 1914. In 1936, he became a research student at the Cavendish Laboratory in a crystallography group directed by J. Bernal, and remained in Cambridge subsequently. During World War II , he was asked to think of a way to improve the structural qualities of ice for Project Habbakuk and invented the mixture of ice and woodpulp known as pykrete. In 1953, Perutz showed that the diffracted rays from protein crystals could be phased by comparing the patterns from crystals of the protein with and without heavy atoms attached. In 1959, he determined the molecular structure of the protein hemoglobin, which transports oxygen in the blood, using this method. In 1962, he received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, with John Kendrew. He established the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England.in 1962, and was chairman until 1979. He remained active in research to the end of his life. His son is a professor in chemistry at The University of York in England.

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Tributes to Max Perutz German university reform DNA sequence patents Tributes to Max Perutz German science ombudsmen ... The Journal of Biology MAGAZINE FIND PLACE AN AD Cambridge's LMB holds symposium in memory of Max Perutz pdf Marta Paterlini When Max Perutz died in February this year, science lost one of its most influential and best-loved characters. Perutz was without doubt one of the giants of twentieth century biology. His integrity and his commitment to experimental science as much as his fundamental contributions to protein chemistry have been eulogised in no fewer than nine separate obituaries by a list of colleagues that reads like a Who’s Who of British structural biology. In September, a memorial service and scientific symposium took place in his adopted home to celebrate the life of this extraordinary man. In 1936 at 22 years old, Perutz moved to Cambridge from his native Austria to study for a PhD. in X-ray crystallography at Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory. As he often used to claim looking back at his life, he wanted to solve problems. From the start, he tackled one of the most difficult problems in the life sciences – how to determine the three-dimensional structure of a protein. The big breakthrough came in 1953, when after over 16 years working on X-ray diffraction patterns produced by crystals of haemoglobin, he developed the isomorphous replacement method that solved the so-called ‘phase problem’ and allowed him to interpret the diffraction patterns. Finally in 1960, in back-to-back papers in

36. Max Ferdinand Perutz 1914−2002 - Nature Medicine max ferdinand perutz, who died on 6 February, will be remembered as one of the20th century s scientific giants. Often referred to as the father of http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v8/n3/full/nm0302-205.html

@import "/nm/style.css"; nature.com homepage Login My account ... Browse by subject Search This journal All of nature.com Advanced search Journal home Archive Table of Contents ... For librarians NPG Resources Nature Nature Reviews Nature Immunology Nature Cell Biology ... Browse all publications Obituary Nature Medicine doi:10.1038/nm0302-205 Sir George Radda Medical Research Council London, UK Max Ferdinand Perutz, who died on 6 February, will be remembered as one of the 20th century's scientific giants. Often referred to as the 'father of molecular biology', his work remains one of the foundations on which science is being built today. Born in Vienna in 1914, Max was educated in the Theresianum, a grammar school originating from an earlier Officers' academy. His parents suggested that he study law to prepare for entering the family business, but he chose to study chemistry at the University of Vienna. In 1936, with financial support from his father, he began a PhD at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. Using X-ray crystallography he aimed to determine the structure of hemoglobin. But the sheer size and complexity of the hemoglobin molecule was too much for the basic X-ray crystallography technique. Then in 1953, he introduced mercury into a crystal of hemoglobin and found that it produced slight changes in the intensities of all the diffraction spots. These changes could be used to find the missing phases for the Fourier components and thus solve the structure. The use of mercury or other heavy atoms to produce 'heavy atom derivatives' revolutionized the technique of X-ray crystallography and led to the determination of many protein structures. The first two protein structures determined, those of myoglobin by colleague John Kendrew and of hemoglobin by Max Perutz, garnered the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

37. Max Ferdinand Perutz - CV max ferdinand perutz. Born 19 May 1914 in Vienna, Austria Went to school atTheresianum 19231932 Studied chemistry at University of Vienna 1932-36 http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/Max_CV.html

Curriculum Vitae Max Ferdinand Perutz Born 19 May 1914 in Vienna, Austria Went to school at Theresianum 1923-1932 Studied chemistry at University of Vienna 1932-36 Graduate student at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University 1936-40 Ph.D. (Cambridge) 1940 Recipient of grants from Rockefeller Foundation 1939 - 45 (with interruptions due to the war) at the Cavendish Laboratory 1945-47 Imperial Chemical Industries Research Fellow 1947-62 Director, Medical Research Council Unit for Molecular Biology at the Cavendish Laboratory 1962-79 Chairman of MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology 1979-83 Member of scientific staff of MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology 1983-95 Recipient of NSF and NIH Research Grants, working at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology 1954 Elected Fellow of Royal Society 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1971 Royal Medal of the Royal Society 1979 Copley Medal of the Royal Society 1988 Order of Merit from H.M. the Queen LMB Home Page

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obituaries Volume 58 Part 3 Pages 211-214 May 2002 Received 11 March 2002 Accepted 11 March 2002 Max Ferdinand Perutz 1914-2002 David Blow a a Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW7 2BZ, England Correspondence e-mail: d.blow@ic.ac.uk Keywords: obituary. A young Viennese chemist from a Jewish family, who arrived in Cambridge in 1936 to study under Desmond Bernal, Max Perutz became the leader of the movement which created molecular biology, and the head of the most successful research laboratory in Britain. Figure 1 Max returns triumphantly to the lecture theatre of the Royal Institution, having retrieved models that he forgot at the start of his lecture. (Photo: A. R. Fersht, 1994.) Throughout his life, his personal research focused on haemoglobin, a familiar protein molecule whose extraordinary range of properties illuminated every stage of the scientific development leading from spectroscopy and protein chemistry through three-dimensional structure to molecular genetics and medical application. His achievements followed from a combination of several outstanding qualities, not all intellectual. His irresistible powers of gentle persuasion brought him long-term support from the Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge, Sir Lawrence Bragg, and from the Secretary of the Medical Research Council, Sir Edward Mellanby, setting up a Medical Research Council Unit in 1947 for his work. He communicated ideas with extraordinary clarity and simplicity. Though he retained a strong Austrian accent, his written English was always elegant, compelling and stimulating. He seemed to write with a golden pen. He had a wonderful way of leading research, leaving his staff with the feeling they were free to decide their own way forward, while he created a vision of the long-term goals. And he had uncanny insight into the potential of young researchers seeking to work with him.

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