Kendrew

American  

[ken-droo] / ˈkɛn dru /

noun

1. John C(owdery) 1917–97, English scientist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962.

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Kendrew British  

/ ˈkɛndruː /

noun

1. Sir John Cowdery. 1917–97, British biochemist. Using X-ray diffraction he discovered the structure of myoglobin, for which he shared a Nobel Prize (1962) with Max Perutz

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Kendrew Scientific  

/ kĕn′dro̅o̅′ /

1. British molecular biologist who studied the chemistry of the blood and determined by x-ray crystallography the structure of the muscle protein myoglobin. For this work he shared with Max Perutz the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry.

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Kendrew

Freeman was based at Kendrew Barracks in Rutland in the East Midlands and was in Iraq as part of Operation Shader, the UK's war against the Islamic State group.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

Perutz had shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry the year before with his colleague John Kendrew, of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK.

From Nature ● Oct. 29, 2018

It was said by Michael Levitt, who shared a Nobel Prize in 2013, not by John Kendrew, who shared the prize in 1962.

From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2018

It’s a tradition that goes back to the 1962 Nobel Prize awarded to Max Perutz and John Kendrew for their studies of hemoglobin and myoglobin.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 10, 2012

At first he did true biology at the Strangeways Laboratory, but this was obviously trivial and two years later he moved over to the Cavendish, where he joined Perutz and Kendrew.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson