Sir John Cowdray Kendrew
(1917-1997), Molecular biophysicistSitter in 4 portraits
Molecular biologist; Deputy Chairman, Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Biology, Cambridge (1946-75); Director General, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (1975-82). Joint winner, with Max Perutz, of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1962) for his work on the structure of myoglobin; knighted 1974.
by Nick Sinclair
bromide print, 1993
NPG P564(14)
by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 2 December 1969
NPG x165937
by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 1970
NPG x19115
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