Perutz

[ per-uhts, puh-roots ]

/ ˈpɛr əts, pəˈruts /

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noun

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

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British Dictionary definitions for Perutz

Perutz

/ (pəˈrʊts) /

noun

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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Scientific definitions for Perutz

Perutz

[ pə-rōōts′, pĕr′əts ]

Max Ferdinand 1914-2002

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.