| RefNo | EC/1960/15 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XVI, 281; A03967 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Kendrew, Sir John Cowdery: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Certificate of Election |
| Citation | Kendrew's field of research has been the investigation of the structure of protein molecules by X-ray analysis, and he has played a large part in the development of the Medical Research Council's Unit at Cambridge which has added so much to our knowledge of biological molecules. He has recently achieved the three-dimensional analysis of myoglobin, the first protein structure to be determined by direct X-ray methods and far more complex than any molecular hitherto analysed. Great difficulties were encountered at each stage, in purifying and crystallising the protein, finding a favourable crystalline form, and preparing a series of isomorphous crystalline heavy atom derivatives. He has also done pioneer work in using electronic computing machines for crystallographic computations. During the war he was Officer-in-Charge, Operational Research Section, and Scientific Adviser to the Allied Air Commander-in Chief, South East Asia (Honorary Wing Commander). |
| Proposers | W L Bragg; M F Perutz; D Keilin; F G Young; N F Mott; H Himsworth; F Sanger; Dorothy Hodgkin; F J W Roughton; A C Chibnall; Linus Pauling; A L Hodgkin; J D Bernal; W T Astbury; E G Cox; A Neuberger; R L M Synge; J W S Pringle; J T Randle; D Gabor |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7874 | Kendrew; Sir; John Cowdery (1917 - 1997) | 1917 - 1997 |