In 1962, when Max Perutz won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the structure of hemoglobin—the protein that carries oxygen from the lungs to the tissues and colors blood cells red ...

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The Nobel Prize winning scientist Max Perutz once said that scientists have changed our way of life more drastically than television stars, statesmen or generals. If you try and imagine a world ...

Max Perutz is renowned for discovering the structure of hemoglobin. He and his colleagues disclosed the tetrameric structure of methemoglobin in 1970, 33 years after he had set himself that task ...