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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Perutz

But that wasn't the primary goal of the study, which experts from the AWI, the Max Perutz Labs in Vienna, the Universities of Vienna and Oldenburg, and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium contributed to.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2024

In December 1952, Dr. Crick’s supervisor, the molecular biologist Max Perutz, received a report on Dr. Franklin’s unpublished results during an official visit to King’s College.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

As a student in 1963, Thomas Steitz heard Max Perutz talk about the structure of myoglobin, the first protein to be solved at the resolution of individual atoms.

From Nature ● Oct. 29, 2018

In the words of Nobel laureate Max Perutz it shows "why blood is red and grass is green, why diamond is hard and wax is soft, why graphite writes on paper and silk is strong".

From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2013

In other instances he had been annoyingly candid in pointing out where Perutz and Bragg had publicly overinterpreted their hemoglobin results.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

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