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Authorised form of nameKendrew; Sir; John Cowdery (1917 - 1997)
Dates1917 - 1997
NationalityBritish
Date of birth24/03/1917
Date of death23/08/1997
ActivityMedals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Chemistry) 1962 jointly
Honours:
CBE 1963; Kt 1974
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election24/03/1960
Age at election43
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1965
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2001 vol 47 pp 311-332, plate, by K C Holmes FRS
AssocMaterial:
NCUACS 78/7/98; NCUACS 11/4/89. Papers deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
References:
Sir John Meurig Thomas, 'Peterhouse, the Royal Society and molecular biology' in NR 2000 vol 54 pp 369-385
N R Ingram, 'All that you can't leave behind' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 177-184
R Holliday, 'The early years of molecular biology: personal recollections' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 195-208
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/85243933
CodeNA7874
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