biography
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Kendrew, Sir John (Cowdery)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1917–97)
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| biography:
| Biochemist, born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, SC England, UK. He studied at Bristol and Cambridge, where he became a fellow (1947–75), and carried out research into the chemistry of blood. He was co-founder (with Max Perutz) and deputy chairman of the Medical Research Council unit for molecular biology at Cambridge (1946–75). He discovered the structure of the muscle protein myoglobin (1957), and was awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry jointly with Perutz. He was director of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory at Heidelberg (1975–82), and president of St John's College, Oxford (1981–7). He was knighted in 1974. |
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