Max Ferdinand Perutz:
Max Ferdinand Perutz was an Austrian biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
May 19, 1914 in Vienna, Austria
Death:
February 6, 2002 in Cambridge, England
Claim to Fame:
Perutz was an Austrian biochemist who shares the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John Kendrew for their research into the structure of hemoglobin and globular proteins. He employed x-ray crystallography to determine the structure of hemoglobin, the protein responsible for transporting oxygen in blood.
