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Friday, 20 Apr 2012


Image – John Kendrew

Image – John Kendrew

Image – John Kendrew

John Kendrew

John Kendrew was an English biochemist and crystallographer who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the first atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.

Kendrew determined the structure of the protein myoglobin, which stores oxygen in muscle cells.

Footage kindly supplied by the BBC

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