Person Perutz; Max Ferdinand (1914 - 2002) Perutz Max Ferdinand 1914 - 2002 British Male Vienna, Austria 19/05/1914 19140519 Cambridge 06/02/2002 20020206 Burial: Ascension Burial Ground, Cambridge

Molecular biology Haemoglobin Education: Theresianum (grammar school), Vienna; University of Vienna Career: Research under J D Bernal (FRS 1937), Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge (1937); Assistant to Sir Lawrence Bragg (FRS 1921), Cavendish Laboratory; Interned as an "enemy alien,"during WW2 released to work for the military; ICI Fellow (1945-1947); Head of MRC Unit for the Study of Molecular Structure of Biological Systems (1947-1957); Reader in Chemistry, Davy Faraday Research Laboratory, Royal Institution, London (1954-1958); Director, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (1957-1979,), Chairman (1967); Honorary Fellow, Peterhouse, Cambridge (1962); won Nobel Prize jointly with Sir John Kendrew (FRS 1960); Chairman, European Molecular Biology Organisation (1963-1969); Fullerian Professor of Physiology, Davy Faraday Laboratory, Royal Institution (1973-1979); With Francois Jacob, Pieter Van Dijk and Torten Wiesel became a founding member of the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies (1993), with the purpose of raising the consciousness of academies around the world about the need to defend fellow scientists and scholars who became victims of severe repression for having exercised those rights promulgated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The organisation put on the Max Perutz Memorial Lecture on Thursday, 19 May 2005 at the Royal Society Wellcome Trust Lecture Hall entitled 'The Archimedean Lever: Right in the Face of Night' by Professor Sari Nusseibeh, Presient. Al-Quds University, East Jerusalem Medals and prizes: Nobel Prize (Chemistry) 1962 Honours: CBE 1963; CH 1975; OM 1988 Memberships: Millennium FRSC (2000) Family were textile manufacturers; married (1942) Gisela Peiser; one son, one daughter Medals and prizes: Royal Medal 1971; Copley Medal 1979 Lectures: Croonian 1968; Humphry Davy 1988; Medawar 1992 Fellow 18/03/1954 39 Sources: Obituaries in The Times, The Independent, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, The Guardian all 07 February 2002; Science vol 295, 29 March 2002, p2382-2383 Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2004 vol 50 pp 227-256, plate, by D M Blow References: Sir John Meurig Thomas, 'Peterhouse, the Royal Society and molecular biology' in NR 2000 vol 54 pp 369-385 R Holliday, 'The early years of molecular biology: personal recollections' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 195-208 A Cook, 'Report. Migrants to The Royal Society, 1930-1940' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 303-304 J M Thomas 'Max Perutz: Chemist, Molecular Biologist, Human Rights Activist' in NR 2006 vol 60 pp59-67 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 19 May 1914 - NA3075 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 17/03/2026 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes 536af963-9cc3-49d0-a609-4e4ce82c08eb