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Advertisement John C. Kendrew Encyclopedia Article Find Print E-mail Blog It Multimedia 1 item John C. Kendrew (1917-1997), British molecular biologist, physicist, biochemist, and Nobel Prize winner. Kendrew successfully determined the structure of a protein , a discovery that led to increased knowledge of how living systems function. He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Austrian-born British chemist Max Perutz John Cowdery Kendrew was born in Oxford, England, and attended Clifton College in Bristol and Trinity College in Cambridge where he received his B.A. degree in 1939 and his M.A. degree in 1943. He completed his Ph.D. degree in 1949 and his doctor of science degree thirteen years later, both at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge. As a doctoral candidate at the Cavendish Laboratory he met Max Perutz, a fellow scientist who was conducting experiments with hemoglobin , a protein in blood that transports oxygen. Perutz's research was strikingly similar to Kendrew's work with myoglobin, a muscle protein. | |
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