John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997)

John Kendrew
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.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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March 24
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