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

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

Kendrew immediately saw 'CERB' as a way to achieve a level of autonomy that was not available to him in Cambridge.

From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014

My pal, local conference organizer, Sarah Kendrew, suggested we try to create a hypothesis generator for astronomy – based on the BrainSCANr project from neuroscience.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 26, 2012

For this John Kendrew and Max Perutz won a Nobel in 1962.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2010

John Kendrew was still in the States, but my arrival was not unexpected.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

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