One man and his molecule

摘要

Max Perutz and his 1959 model of oxygenated haemoglobin is one of the iconic images of twentieth-century biology. It encapsulates a journey that began in 1936 when, armed with a degree in chemistry from the University of Vienna, Perutz moved to Cambridge to work as John Desmond Bernal's research student on the task of solving protein structures at atomic resolution using X-ray crystallography.