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

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 Franklin’s unpublished results during an official visit to King’s College.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

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

Max Perutz had been a member of the committee; he had obtained a copy of the report and handed it to Watson and Crick.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee