Perutz, << PEHR uhts, >> Max Ferdinand (1914-2002), a British molecular biologist, shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1962 with John C. Kendrew. Through X-ray techniques, they traced the structure of hemoglobin and myoglobin, two proteins found in blood and muscles. Perutz spent 22 years on his research, concentrating on hemoglobin. Born on May 19, 1914, in Vienna, Austria, he fled to England in 1936 to escape Nazism. His essays were collected in Is Science Necessary? (1989). Perutz died on Feb. 6, 2002.
