1962
Francis Crick – Biographical
Biographical
Francis Harry Compton Crick was born on June 8th, 1916, at Northampton, England, being the elder child of Harry Crick and Annie Elizabeth Wilkins. He has one brother, A. F. Crick, who is a doctor in New Zealand. Crick was educated at Northampton Grammar School and Mill Hill School, London. He studied physics at University…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
As a result of Kendrew’s and Perutz’ contributions it is thus becoming possible to see the principles behind the construction of globular proteins.
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Max F. Perutz – Biographical
Biographical
Max Ferdinand Perutz was born in Vienna on May 19th, 1914. Both his parents, Hugo Perutz and Dely Goldschmidt, came from families of textile manufacturers who had made their fortune in the 19th century by the introduction of mechanical spinning and weaving into the Austrian monarchy. He was sent to school at the Theresianum, a…
moreJohn C. Kendrew – Biographical
Biographical
John Cowdery Kendrew was born on 24th March, 1917, in Oxford. His father, Wilfrid George Kendrew, was Reader in Climatology in the University of Oxford; his mother, Evelyn May Graham (Sandberg) Kendrew, was an art historian, for many years resident in Florence, Italy, where she published works on the Italian Primitives under the nom de…
moreCandidates for the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature
2 January, 2013 All information concerning the nominations and selections of the Nobel Laureates is kept secret for 50 years. Of the 66 individuals suggested for the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature 15 were new candidates. The Nobel Committee for Literature had American writer John Steinbeck, the English poet Robert Graves and French dramatist Jean…
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