Information about MaxPerutz

OM., CH., CBE. FRS
1914 - 2002

• As a young man worked on the formation of ice in glaciers, this is commemorated by the naming of 'Perutz Glacier' in Crystal Sound in the Antarctic.
• Nobel prize for chemistry in 1962
• Gave Memorial address for Dorothy Hodgkin in 1984
• Author of obituary of John Kendrew
• Honorary member BCA 1999
• Presented prizes at S.E.Region Crystal growing Competition March 1998
• Review of his book "I wish I'd made you angry earlier"
• The Vega Science Trust recorded 8 hours of interviews with him during 2001, Face2Face with Max Perutz
• The new lecture theatre in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology was named after him in 2002; sadly, he did not live to attend the dedication ceremony himself; here is an image of the memorial plaque. (image copyright Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, to whom we are grateful for permission to reproduce it here)
  
  Further details of his career are on the LMB web site
• 'The Times' of Thursday February 7th 2002 published an obituary, by David Blow
• There was a brief reminiscence by Richard Henderson published in the March issue of 'Crystallography News' and a full obituary in June 2002 and an account of the memorial Service held in Cambridge in September 2002 with an address by John M.Thomas

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