John Kendrew

✶March 24, 1917

†August 23, 1997

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About their life

Sir John Cowdery Kendrew, was an English biochemist, crystallographer, and science administrator. Kendrew shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Max Perutz, for their work at the Cavendish Laboratory to investigate the structure of haem-containing proteins.

English biochemist & crystallographer (1917–1997)

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