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===Honours and awards=== Perutz was elected a [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1954|Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1954]].<ref name=frs/> In addition to the [[Nobel Prize for Chemistry]] in 1962, which he shared with [[John Kendrew]] for their respective studies of the structures of haemoglobin and myoglobin,<ref name="Stoddart">{{cite journal |last1=Stoddart |first1=Charlotte |title=Structural biology: How proteins got their close-up |journal=Knowable Magazine |date=1 March 2022 |doi=10.1146/knowable-022822-1|s2cid=247206999 |doi-access=free |url=https://knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2022/structural-biology-how-proteins-got-their-closeup |access-date=25 March 2022}}</ref> Max Perutz received a number of other important honours: he was appointed a [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] in 1963, elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] that same year,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Max Ferdinand Perutz |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/max-ferdinand-perutz |access-date=2022-09-16 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en}}</ref> received the [[Austrian Decoration for Science and Art]] in 1967, was elected to the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1968,<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Max+Perutz&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2022-09-16 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> elected to the United States [[National Academy of Sciences]] in 1970,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Max F. Perutz |url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/45945.html |access-date=2022-09-16 |website=www.nasonline.org}}</ref> received the [[Royal Medal]] of the [[Royal Society]] in 1971, appointed a [[Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour]] in 1975, received the [[Copley Medal]] in 1979 and became a [[Member of the Order of Merit]] in 1988. Perutz was made a Member of the [[German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina]] in 1964, received an Honorary doctorate from the [[University of Vienna]] (1965) and received the [[Wilhelm Exner Medal]] in 1967.<ref>editor, ΓGV. (2015). Wilhelm Exner Medal. Austrian Trade Association. ΓGV. Austria.</ref> He was elected to [[EMBO Membership]] in 1964.<ref name=membo>{{cite web|url=https://people.embo.org/profile/max-f-perutz|website=people.embo.org|title=Max Perutz EMBO member|author=Anon|year=1964}}</ref> The [[European Crystallographic Association]] established the Max Perutz Prize, named in his honour.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}
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