Born 19 May 1914 in Vienna, Austria

Went to school at Theresianum 1923-1932

Studied chemistry at University of Vienna 1932-36

Graduate student at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University 1936-40

Ph.D. (Cambridge) 1940

Recipient of grants from Rockefeller Foundation 1939 - 45 (with interruptions due to the war) at the Cavendish Laboratory


1945-47 Imperial Chemical Industries Research Fellow

1947-62 Director, Medical Research Council Unit for Molecular Biology at the Cavendish Laboratory

1962-79 Chairman of MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

1979-83 Member of scientific staff of MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

1983-95 Recipient of NSF and NIH Research Grants, working at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology


1954 Elected Fellow of Royal Society
1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
1971 Royal Medal of the Royal Society
1979 Copley Medal of the Royal Society
1988 Order of Merit from H.M. the Queen
1988 Pour le Mérite from the President of the German Federal Republic

Foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, the American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Austrian, Netherlands, Italian, Bavarian, French and German Academies of Science, the German Akademie Leopoldina, the Max-Planck Gesellschaft, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome), and the Accademia Nazionale della Scienze (Rome).


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