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Max Perutz

1914 - 2002

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Max Ferdinand Perutz (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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Perutz has received more than 288,294 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Max Perutz is the 198th most popular chemist (down from 181st in 2019), the 264th most popular biography from Austria (down from 262nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Austrian Chemist.

Max Perutz was most famous for his work in protein crystallography and for his discovery of the alpha helix structure of proteins.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Max Perutz ranks 198 out of 602. Before him are Roald Hoffmann, Alan MacDiarmid, Paul L. Modrich, Robert Curl, William Standish Knowles, and Louis Jacques Thénard. After him are John Vane, Hermann Kolbe, Osamu Shimomura, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Mario J. Molina, and Nikolay Semyonov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Max Perutz ranks 38. Before him are Desmond Llewelyn, Etty Hillesum, Gino Bartali, William Vickrey, Gino Colaussi, and Louis, Prince Napoléon. After him are Tyrone Power, Vjekoslav Luburić, Dylan Thomas, George Dantzig, Asger Jorn, and María Félix. Among people deceased in 2002, Max Perutz ranks 44. Before him are Ne Win, Song Hye-rim, Aileen Wuornos, Zizinho, Raf Vallone, and René Thom. After him are Xi Zhongxun, Victor Weisskopf, María Félix, Sigvard Bernadotte, Yoshio Okada, and Cornelis Johannes van Houten.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Max Perutz ranks 264 out of 1,424. Before him are Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1610), William, Duke of Austria (1370), Otto, Duke of Austria (1301), Sigismund, Archduke of Austria (1427), Friedrich Adler (1879), and Franz Jonas (1899). After him are Friedrich von Amerling (1803), Adam Albert von Neipperg (1775), Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria (1866), Koloman Moser (1868), Fanny Elssler (1810), and Victor Weisskopf (1908).

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Among CHEMISTS In Austria

Among chemists born in Austria, Max Perutz ranks 4. Before him are Fritz Pregl (1869), Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865), and Richard Kuhn (1900). After him are Martin Karplus (1930), Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858), Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein (1740), Carl Djerassi (1923), and Ida Freund (1863).

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