MAX PERUTZ AND THE SECRET OF LIFE
Book ID/图书代码： 04700007B15460
English Summary/英文概要： Few scientists have thought more deeply about their calling and its impact on humanity than Max Perutz (1914-2002).
In 1947, he founded the small Cambridge research group in which Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the structure of DNA: under his leadership it grew to become the world-famous Laboratory for Molecular Biology.
Max himself explored the protein haemoglobin which won him a shared Nobel Prize in 1962, the same year as Crick and Watson.
The work of his amazing team launched a new era of medicine, heralding today’s astonishing advances in the genetic basis of disease.
Born in Vienna, Jewish by descent, lapsed Catholic by religion, Max came to Cambridge in 1936, to join the lab of the legendary Communist thinker J.D. Bernal.
There he began to explore the structures of the protein molecules that hold the secret of life. In 1940, he was interned and deported to Canada as an enemy alien, only to be brought back and set to work on a bizarre top secret war project.
Max Perutz’s story brims with life. This biography has the zest of an adventure novel and is full of extraordinary characters. Max was demanding, passionate and driven but also humorous, compassionate and loving. Small in stature, he became a fearless mountain climber; drawing on his own experience as a refugee, he argued fearlessly for human rights; he could be ruthless but had a talent for friendship. An articulate and engaging advocate of science, he found new problems to engage his imagination until weeks before he died aged 88.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Georgina Ferry 研究蛋白質結構聞名，以 X-光 繞射研究血紅素蛋白Haemoglobin結構而榮獲1962年諾貝爾化學獎，一生致力科學研究。在他達到65歲的退休年齡後的22年間，仍不停歇地在他的工作崗位對現代分子生物學作出貢獻。他生前最後一篇重要學術論文發表於2001年第412期的NATURE權威學刊，雖然患有癌症，87歲的他一直工作到2002年聖誕節前，他這一生多產的生化研究才真正告一段落。
MRC分子生物學實驗室是Max Perutz於1962年創立的，其前身是英國醫學研究委員會於1947年。在那裡，Max Perutz和他的研究生John Kendrew 潛心研究血紅蛋白和肌紅蛋白的晶體結構。
Awards/获奖情况：諾貝爾化學獎得主
分子生物學大師 Max Perutz
About the Author/作者介绍： Georgina Ferry曾為新科學家週刊（New Scientist）編輯，目前為Radio 4’s Science廣播工作者，也是《霍吉金傳》（Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life）一書的作者；該書同時入圍庫柏獎（Duff Cooper Prize）及瑪許傳記獎（Marsh Biography Award）的決選名單；另著有《名叫里歐的電腦》（A Computer Called Leo）是有關英國第一家使用電腦的公司的故事。目前居住於牛津。
Georgina Ferry is a former staff editor on New Scientist, and contributor to Radio 4’s Science Now. Her books include the acclaimed biography Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life (1998); The Common Thread (2002, with Sir John Sulston) and A Computer called LEO (2003). She lives in Oxford.
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