Max Perutz was born on this day in 1914, in Vienna, Austria. He was the founder and first Chairman of the LMB. On day 139 of #LMB365, Max is photographed on the day he was awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the studies of the structures of globular proteins. The photograph was taken by LMB student, Hans Boye. Max died on 6 February 2002, in Cambridge.
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