Max Perutz Solves the Molecular Structure of Hemoglobin at High Resolution

1968
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Max Ferdinand Perutz, 1962.

Max Ferdinand Perutz, 1962.

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.

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