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Nature 449, 145-146 (13 September 2007) | doi:10.1038/449145a; Published online 12 September 2007

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Max Perutz: One man and his molecule

Ermanno Gherardi1

BOOK REVIEWEDPiccole Visioni: La Grande Storia di una Molecola

by Marta Paterlini

Codice Edizioni: 2006. 263 pp. euro dollar19

Max Perutz and his 1959 model of oxygenated haemoglobin is one of the iconic images of twentieth-century biology. It encapsulates a journey that began in 1936 when, armed with a degree in chemistry from the University of Vienna, Perutz moved to Cambridge to work as John Desmond Bernal's research student on the task of solving protein structures at atomic resolution using X-ray crystallography.

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Obituary Max Perutz (1914?2002)

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