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Max Perutz
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May 19, 1914
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Business Leader
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Biography

Max Perutz is 112 years old, a business leader, from United Kingdom.

Max Ferdinand Perutz (19 May 1914 โ€“ 6 February 2002) 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 (1962โ€“79) The MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), fourteen of whose scientists have won Nobel Prizes.

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