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Max Perutz

Max Perutz, Austrian-English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2002)

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Born
May 19, 1914
Died
February 6, 2002
Zodiac sign
Taurus
Birth year
1914

About Max Perutz

Max Ferdinand Perutz was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with John Kendrew, for their studies of the structures of haemoglobin and myoglobin. He went on to win the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1971 and the Copley Medal in 1979. At Cambridge he founded and chaired (1962–79) The MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), fourteen of whose scientists have won Nobel Prizes. Perutz also added that the report was addressed to an MRC committee created to "establish contact between the different groups of people working for the Council". To that end he investigated the recently invented mixture of ice and woodpulp known as pykrete.

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Max Perutz timeline

  1. At Cambridge he founded and chaired (1962–79) The MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), fourteen of whose scientists have won Nobel Prizes.
  2. He went on to win the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1971 and the Copley Medal in 1979.

The world when Max Perutz was born

Max Perutz was born in 1914. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1914

  • Best-selling book"The Eyes of the World" – Harold Bell Wright

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports moment"Miracle Braves" complete greatest comeback in baseball history
  • Top headlineWorld War I begins — Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated
  • Technology milestonePanama Canal opens
  • World population~1.74B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderWoodrow Wilson
  • U.S. population97.2M

1914 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Max Perutz's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19142026
Population97.2M341 million

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