Max Perutz Solves the Molecular Structure of Hemoglobin at High Resolution

Thirty years after beginning his research on hemoglobin Austrian-born British molecular biologist Max Perutz at Cambridge solved the Fourier synthesis of hemoglobin at 2.8Å, and built an atomic model of the molecule.

Perutz el al, "Three-dimensional Fourier Synthesis of Horse Oxyhaemoglobin at 2.8Å Resolution: The Atomic Model," Nature 219 (1968) 131-39.