John Cowdery Kendrew:
John Cowdery Kendrew was a British biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
March 24, 1917 in Oxford, Oxfordshire
Death:
August 23, 1997 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Claim to Fame:
Kendrew was a British biochemist who shares the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Max Perutz for their investigations into the structures of globular proteins. He determined the three dimensional structure of myoglobin, the protein that stores oxygen in muscle cells. When a muscle is being used, it requires more oxygen and myoglobin releases any stored oxygen to keep the cell functioning.
