Max Ferdinand Perutz was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with John Kendrew, for their studies of the structures of haemoglobin and myoglobin. He went on to win the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1971 and the Copley Medal in 1979. At Cambridge he founded and chaired (1962–79) The MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), fourteen of whose scientists have won Nobel Prizes. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962, announced November 1, 1962. Max F. Perutz and John C. Kendrew, “for their studies of the structures of globular proteins”. Max F. Perutz: born 1914, Vienna, Austria. John C. Kendrew: born 1917, Oxford, United Kingdom. Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).