SAB NewsMax Perutz, 'scientific giant' and Nobel laureate, dies at 87Max Perutz, the father of molecular biology died February 6, 2002 from cancer at the age of 87. Dr Perutz was part of a brilliant group of young Cambridge scientists who in the 1950s forged a new scientific discipline that unlocked the molecular secrets of life, including the double-helix structure of DNA. http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=118556 |
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