The decades following World War II saw an increase in using physical methods to solve biological problems, which led to a greatly increased knowledge of living systems. John Kendrew's contribution to this trend was formulating the first...

John C. Kendrew (1917-1997) was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry (with Max Perutz) in 1962 for his work in determining protein structures. John Cowdery Kendrew was born in Oxford, England, on March 24, 1917, the son of Wilfred George and Evelyn May...

Max Perutz was born in Vienna, Austria, to parents who were both from prosperous textile manufacturing families. Instead of entering the family business, Perutz became fascinated with chemistry and began studying it in 1932 at the University of Vienna....

1917-1997 British molecular biochemist and corecipient with Max Perutz of the 1962 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work in determining the structure of the protein molecule. Protein molecules are essential parts of all living cells. Kendrew's...

Sir John Cowdery Kendrew (March 24, 1917 – August 23, 1997) was an English biochemist and crystallographer who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Max Perutz; their group in the Cavendish Laboratory investigated the structure of...

John Kendrew will be remembered for many contributions to science, but three stand out: his determination, in atomic detail, of the structure of myoglobin, a protein found in muscle, the function of which is to take oxygen from haemoglobin; his role as the founder...

Sir John Kendrew, 80, the British scientist who used dogged persistence and early-stage computers to solve one of the most daunting problems of molecular biology and win the Nobel Prize, died Aug. 23 in Cambridge, England. The cause of death was not reported. ...