Editing Max Perutz (section)

{{Short description|Austrian-born British molecular biologist (1914–2002)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| image             = Max Perutz 1962.jpg
| caption           = Perutz in 1962
| birth_name        = Max Ferdinand Perutz
| honorific_suffix  = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OM|CH|CBE|FRS}}
| birth_date        = 19 May 1914
| birth_place       = [[Vienna]], [[Austria-Hungary]]
| nationality       = British
| death_date        = {{death date and age|df=yes|2002|2|6|1914|5|19}}
| death_place       = [[Cambridge]], England
| field             = [[Molecular biology]]<br>[[Crystallography]]
| work_institution  = [[University of Cambridge]]<br>[[Laboratory of Molecular Biology]]
| education         = {{Plainlist|
* [[University of Vienna]] (BSc)
* [[University of Cambridge]] (PhD)<!--Peterhouse, Cambridge doesn't award degrees-->}}
| doctoral_advisor  = [[John Desmond Bernal]]
| doctoral_students = {{Plainlist|
* [[Francis Crick]]<ref name=cphd>{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Francis Harry Compton|last=Crick |title=Polypeptides and proteins : X-ray studies |publisher=University of Cambridge |date=1954 |url=https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/250994 |website=repository.cam.ac.uk |oclc=879394484 |id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.598146}}}}</ref>
* [[John Keith Moffat]]<ref>{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=University of Cambridge|title=X-ray studies of chemically-modified horse haemoglobin|first= John Keith|last=Moffat|date=1969|url=http://ulmss-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=11696|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.465918}}|website=lib.cam.ac.uk|oclc=500520334}}</ref>}}
| known_for         = Three-dimensional structure of [[haemoglobin]]
| prizes            = {{Plainlist|
* [[Nobel Prize for Chemistry]] (1962)
* [[Wilhelm Exner Medal]] (1967)
* [[Sir Hans Krebs Medal]] (1968)
* [[Royal Medal]] (1971)
* [[Copley Medal]] (1979)}}
| spouse            = Gisela Clara Peiser (m. 1942; 2 children)
}}
'''Max Ferdinand Perutz''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|OM|CH|CBE|FRS}} (19 May 1914 – 6 February 2002)<ref name=frs>{{Cite journal | last1 = Blow | first1 = David Mervyn | author-link = David Mervyn Blow| doi = 10.1098/rsbm.2004.0016 | title = Max Ferdinand Perutz OM CH CBE. 19 May 1914 – 6 February 2002: Elected F.R.S. 1954 | journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume = 50 | pages = 227–256 | year = 2004 | pmid =  15768489| jstor = 4140521| s2cid = 73986989 | doi-access = free }}</ref> 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 [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] he founded and chaired (1962–79) The [[MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology]] (LMB), fourteen of whose scientists have won Nobel Prizes.