Max Perutz, a Nobel Prize winner, and Alain Marengo-Rowe

Patricia Williams, MT(ASCP)SBB

In 1962, Watson and Crick received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the molecular structure of nucleic acids. That same year, Max Perutz (1914-2002). received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Perutz formed his own laboratory in Cambridge, the Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Biology. This laboratory made many important contributions to medicine and also formed several Nobel Prize winners. Dr. Alain J. Marengo-Rowe from Baylor knew Max Perutz personally from his days as a fellow of Dr. Herman Lehmann. He recounts several stories about Perutz and the dawn of the molecular age.