John Kendrew
English biochemist and crystallographer (1917–1997)
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Updated 2026-05-29
English biochemist who cracked the structure of haem-containing proteins and split the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Max Perutz. His work at the Cavendish Laboratory basically rewrote what we knew about how molecules actually look.
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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.
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