Max Ferdinand Perutz
(1914-2002), Molecular biologist and chemistSitter in 3 portraits
Molecular biologist; won Nobel Prize for Chemistry (jointly with Sir John Kendrew )1962, for work on the structure and function of proteins and nucleic acids; Professor of Physiology, Cambridge University, 1973-9. Joint winner, with John Kendrew, of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1962) for work on the structure of haemoglobin.
by John Stanton Ward
chalk, 1990
NPG 6136
by Unknown photographer, for The Times
bromide print, 1960s
NPG x21770
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