Max Perutz Death
Max passed away on February 6, 2002 at the age of 87.
When did Max Perutz die?
February 6, 2002How old was Max Perutz when died?
87
Max Perutz Birthday and Date of Death
Max Perutz was born on May 19, 1914 and died on February 6, 2002. Max was 87 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: May 19, 1914
Date of Death: February 6, 2002
Age at Death: 87
Max Perutz - Biography
Max Ferdinand Perutz OM CH CBE FRS (19 May 1914 – 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 (1962–79) The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, fourteen of whose scientists have won Nobel Prizes. Perutz's contributions to molecular biology in Cambridge are documented in The History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 4 (1870 to 1990) published by the Cambridge University Press in 1992.
