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John Kendrew

1917 - 1997

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Sir John Cowdery Kendrew, (24 March 1917 – 23 August 1997) was an English biochemist, crystallographer, and science administrator. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Kendrew has received more than 573,898 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). John Kendrew is the 239th most popular physicist (down from 225th in 2019), the 647th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 714th in 2019) and the 25th most popular British Physicist.

John Kendrew was a British biochemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1962 with Max Perutz for their work in determining the structures of proteins.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Kendrew ranks 239 out of 851. Before him are Serge Haroche, Horst Ludwig Störmer, William Shockley, Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Leon M. Lederman, and Henry Way Kendall. After him are Valentin Ceaușescu, Bertram Brockhouse, Alexey Ekimov, Patrick Blackett, Klaus Hasselmann, and John Archibald Wheeler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, John Kendrew ranks 39. Before him are Dizzy Gillespie, John B. Calhoun, John Lee Hooker, Fernando Rey, Herbert A. Hauptman, and Kiro Gligorov. After him are Jane Wyman, George Gaynes, Leonid Hurwicz, Mel Ferrer, Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia, and Danielle Darrieux. Among people deceased in 1997, John Kendrew ranks 42. Before him are Chien-Shiung Wu, Willem de Kooning, Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, Cornelius Castoriadis, John Eccles, and Eugene Merle Shoemaker. After him are Otto Ernst Remer, Diosdado Macapagal, Anton LaVey, Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark, Alfred Hershey, and Alexander R. Todd.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Kendrew ranks 647 out of 8,785. Before him are Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877), James Hargreaves (1720), Philippa of England (1394), James Paul Moody (1887), James Dewar (1842), and George Martin (1926). After him are Bobby Robson (1933), John Flamsteed (1646), Kevin Keegan (1951), Brian Eno (1948), Colin Maclaurin (1698), and Richard Arkwright (1732).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Kendrew ranks 25. Before him are John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), Roger Penrose (1931), William Henry Bragg (1862), Henry Moseley (1887), David J. Thouless (1934), and William Shockley (1910). After him are Patrick Blackett (1897), Brian Josephson (1940), Charles Wheatstone (1802), David Brewster (1781), John Cockcroft (1897), and Daniel Rutherford (1749).

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