Perutz

American  

[per-uhts, puh-roots] / ˈpɛr əts, pəˈruts /

noun

1. Max Ferdinand, 1914–2002, English chemist, born in Austria: Nobel Prize 1962.

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Perutz British  

/ pəˈrʊts /

noun

1. Max Ferdinand. 1914–2002, British biochemist, born in Austria. With J. C. Kendrew, he worked on the structure of haemoglobin and shared the Nobel prize for chemistry 1962

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Perutz Scientific  

/ pə-ro̅o̅ts′,pĕr′əts /

1. Austrian-born British biochemist who determined the structure of hemoglobin, demonstrating that it is composed of four chains of molecules. For this work he shared with John Kendrew the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry.

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Example Sentences

A new study led by molecular biologist Florian Raible from the Max Perutz Labs at the University of Vienna has now provided new insights.

From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2024

Dr. Perutz later gave this report to Dr. Crick and Dr. Watson.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2023

The Cavendish was a physics lab, but also housed the Medical Research Council’s Unit for Research on the Molecular Structure of Biological Systems, headed by chemist Max Perutz.

From Nature • Oct. 8, 2019

Those numbers were unwittingly provided by Franklin herself, included in a brief informal report that was given to Max Perutz of Cambridge University.

From The Guardian • Jun. 23, 2015

Leading the unit to which Francis belonged was Max Perutz, an Austrian-born chemist who came to England in 1936.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson