On This Day - May 19 : Max Perutz was born

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He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1962 with John Kendrew for their studies of the structures of haemoglobin and globular proteins using x-ray diffraction. He also investigated the flow of glaciers, making a crystallographic study of the transformation of snow into glacial ice.

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