For the Industrial Revolution-era designer, see John Kendrew (inventor).
John Kendrew
CBE FRS
Born
John Cowdery Kendrew
(1917-03-24)24 March 1917
Oxford, England
Died
23 August 1997(1997-08-23) (aged 80)
Cambridge, England
Education
Clifton College
Alma mater
University of Cambridge
Known for
Haem-containing proteins
Awards
Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1962)
EMBO Member (1964)
Royal Medal (1965)
Scientific career
Fields
Crystallography
Institutions
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Peterhouse, Cambridge Royal Air Force
Thesis
X-ray studies of certain crystalline proteins : the crystal structure of foetal and adult sheep haemoglobins and of horse myoglobin(1949)
Academic advisors
Max Perutz
Doctoral students
Hugh Huxley[1][2]
Lubert Stryer[2]
Other notable students
James D. Watson (postdoc)[2]
Military career
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Service/branch
Royal Air Force
Years of service
1941–1945
Rank
Wing Commander (RAFVR)
Battles/wars
Second World War
Sir John Cowdery Kendrew, CBE FRS[3] (24 March 1917 – 23 August 1997) was an English biochemist, crystallographer, and science administrator. Kendrew shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Max Perutz, for their work at the Cavendish Laboratory to investigate the structure of haem-containing proteins.
^Huxley, Hugh Esmor (1953). Investigations of biological structures by X-ray methods : the structure of muscle. lib.cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 885437514. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.604904.
^Holmes, K. C. (2001). "Sir John Cowdery Kendrew. 24 March 1917 - 23 August 1997: Elected F.R.S. 1960". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 47: 311–332. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2001.0018. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0028-EC77-7. PMID 15124647.
Sir John Cowdery Kendrew, CBE FRS (24 March 1917 – 23 August 1997) was an English biochemist, crystallographer, and science administrator. Kendrew shared...
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Nobel Peace Prize twice. Also the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Bardeen twice, as was the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Frederick Sanger and...
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Medical Research Council studentship, until he joined Max Perutz and JohnKendrew at the Cavendish Laboratory. The Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge was...
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crystallographic determination of myoglobin and hemoglobin by Max Perutz and JohnKendrew[when?]. Any linear-chain heteropolymer can be said to have a "primary...
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could work to determine the structure of DNA. That summer, Luria met JohnKendrew, and he arranged for a new postdoctoral research project for Watson in...
and Arthur Kornberg received the Nobel Prize for their work. 1960 – JohnKendrew described the structure of myoglobin, the oxygen-carrying protein in...
reality after a meeting in 1962 with Victor F. Weisskopf, James Watson and JohnKendrew. When the European Molecular Biology Laboratory was established, the...
to biology, bringing with them a new way of thinking and expertise. JohnKendrew joined Perutz's group to study a protein closely related to hemoglobin...
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fringes in neutron diffraction was made by Clifford Shull in 1968. 1960 - JohnKendrew determined the structure of myoglobin for which he shared the 1962 Nobel...
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