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DIED. MAX PERUTZ, 87, groundbreaking molecular biologist; in Cambridge, England. Perutz and colleague John Kendrew won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for uncovering the structure of the organic molecule hemoglobin, a key to transporting oxygen and carbon dioxide through the body...
...second term three years ago. DIED. GEORGE NADER, 80, 1954 Golden Globe winner and star of 1953 cult-classic Robot Monster; in Los Angeles. Nader's soon-to-be-published book, The Perils of Paul, gives an inside look into Hollywood's gay community. DIED. MAX PERUTZ, 87, scientist who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in chemistry for mapping out the molecular structure of human hemoglobin with colleague John Kendrew; in Cambridge, England. Perutz's work laid the foundation for human genome and disease research. DIED. CLAUDE BROWN, 64, author of Manchild in the Promised Land, which closely follows...
...eating viruses as a kind of genetic scalpel; the virtually forgotten work of Rockefeller Institute's Oswald Avery; the painstaking efforts of scientists to explain exactly how DNA and its kin, RNA (for ribonucleic acid), performed their magic; and finally the patient toil of Britain's Max Perutz, who unraveled the structure and precise workings of the blood's oxygen-carrying molecule that, in complexity of design, is to DNA what a skyscraper is to a town house...
...confidence." Biochemist Erwin Chargaff, bypassed by the DNA revolution, is "the man of mordant dissent." But in the main, the author is content to take the role of acolyte, bombarding his gifted tutors with questions, some incisive, others pointedly rhetorical. As Judson plays student to Nobel Laureates Crick and Perutz, so does the reader, who, if patient enough, can gain an understanding and appreciation of the century's most elusive science...
...diffident, Perutz began to probe the hemoglobin structure in 1937, after he came to Cambridge as a refugee graduate student. His work was interrupted during the war because he was interned as an enemy alien; then he was released to work on a bizarre and impractical scheme to tow Arctic ice islands into the North Atlantic to serve as airbases...