John Kendrew
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John Kendrew

John Kendrew
Personal information
Birth date24 March 1917
Birth placeOxford, England
Death date23 August 1997(age 80)
Death placeCambridge, England
NationalityUnited Kingdom
FieldsCrystallography
InstitutionsRoyal Air Force
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Doctoral advisorMax Perutz
Known forHeme-containing proteins
Notable awardsNobel Prize for Chemistry (1962)

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Sir John Cowdery Kendrew, CBE, FRS (24 March 1917 - 23 August 1997) was an English biochemist and crystallographer who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Max Perutz; their group in the Cavendish Laboratory investigated the structure of heme-containing proteins.

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Academic offices
Preceded by
Sir Richard Southern		President of St John's College, Oxford
1981-1987		Succeeded by
Dr William Hayes

Nobel Laureates in Chemistry

Edwin McMillan / Glenn T. Seaborg (1951) * Archer Martin / Richard Synge (1952) * Hermann Staudinger (1953) * Linus Pauling (1954) * Vincent du Vigneaud (1955) * Cyril Hinshelwood / Nikolay Semyonov (1956) * Alexander Todd (1957) * Frederick Sanger (1958) * Jaroslav Heyrovský (1959) * Willard Libby (1960) * Melvin Calvin (1961) * Max Perutz / John Kendrew (1962) * Karl Ziegler / Giulio Natta (1963) * Dorothy Hodgkin (1964) * Robert Woodward (1965) * Robert S. Mulliken (1966) * Manfred Eigen / Ronald Norrish / George Porter (1967) * Lars Onsager (1968) * Derek Barton / Odd Hassel (1969) * Luis Federico Leloir (1970) * Gerhard Herzberg (1971) * Christian B. Anfinsen / Stanford Moore / William Stein (1972) * E.O.Fischer / Geoffrey Wilkinson (1973) * Paul Flory (1974) * John Cornforth / Vladimir Prelog (1975)



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