The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962
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Max Ferdinand Perutz
Prize share: 1/2
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
John Cowdery Kendrew
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962 was awarded jointly to Max Ferdinand Perutz and John Cowdery Kendrew "for their studies of the structures of globular proteins"
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