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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
[[File:Myoglobin John Kendrew.jpg|350px|thumb|John Kendrew with model of myoglobin in progress.]]'''Sir John Cowdery Kendrew''', CBE, FRS (24 March 1917 – 23 August 1997) was an English biochemist and crystallographer who investigated the structure of heme-containing proteins.


Their group in the Cavendish Laboratory investigated the structure of heme-containing proteins.
Kendrew shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with [[Max Perutz (nonfiction)|Max Perutz]] for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.  


== In the News ==
== In the News ==


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== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
* [[Max Perutz (nonfiction)]]
* [[Protein (nonfiction)]]


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John Kendrew with model of myoglobin in progress.

Sir John Cowdery Kendrew, CBE, FRS (24 March 1917 – 23 August 1997) was an English biochemist and crystallographer who investigated the structure of heme-containing proteins.

Kendrew shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

External links: