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John Kendrew (John Cowdery Kendrew) was born on 24 March, 1917 in Oxford, England, is an English biochemist and crystallographer. Discover John Kendrew's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?

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Age 80 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 24 March 1917
Birthday 24 March
Birthplace Oxford, England
Date of death 23 August, 1997
Died Place Cambridge, England
Nationality Peru

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1917

Sir John Cowdery Kendrew, (24 March 1917 – 23 August 1997) was an English biochemist, crystallographer, and science administrator.

1930

After preparatory school at the Dragon School in Oxford, he was educated at Clifton College in Bristol, 1930–1936.

1936

He attended Trinity College, Cambridge in 1936, as a Major Scholar, graduating in chemistry in 1939.

He spent the early months of World War II doing research on reaction kinetics, and then became a member of the Air Ministry Research Establishment, working on radar.

1941

In 1940 he became engaged in operational research at the Royal Air Force headquarters; commissioned a squadron leader on 17 September 1941, he was appointed an honorary wing commander on 8 June 1944, and relinquished his commission on 5 June 1945.

1945

In 1945 he approached Max Perutz in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge.

Joseph Barcroft, a respiratory physiologist, suggested he might make a comparative protein crystallographic study of adult and fetal sheep haemoglobin, and he started that work.

1947

In 1947 he became a Fellow of Peterhouse; and the Medical Research Council (MRC) agreed to create a research unit for the study of the molecular structure of biological systems, under the direction of Sir Lawrence Bragg.

In 1947 the MRC agreed to make a research unit for the Study of the Molecular Structure of Biological Systems.

The original studies were on the structure of sheep haemoglobin, but when this work had progressed as far as was possible using the resources then available, Kendrew embarked on the study of myoglobin, a molecule only a quarter the size of the haemoglobin molecule.

His initial source of raw material was horse heart, but the crystals thus obtained were too small for X-ray analysis.

Kendrew realized that the oxygen-conserving tissue of diving mammals could offer a better prospect, and a chance encounter led to his acquiring a large chunk of whale meat from Peru.

Whale myoglobin did give large crystals with clean X-ray diffraction patterns.

1948

Kendrew was married to the former Elizabeth Jarvie (née Gorvin) from 1948 to 1956.

Their marriage ended in divorce.

Kendrew was subsequently partners with the artist Ruth Harris.

He left no survivors.

1949

He was awarded his PhD after the war in 1949.

During the war years, he became increasingly interested in biochemical problems, and decided to work on the structure of proteins.

1953

However, the problem still remained insurmountable, until in 1953 Max Perutz discovered that the phase problem in analysis of the diffraction patterns could be solved by multiple isomorphous replacement — comparison of patterns from several crystals; one from the native protein, and others that had been soaked in solutions of heavy metals and had metal ions introduced in different well-defined positions.

1954

In 1954 he became a Reader at the Davy-Faraday Laboratory of the Royal Institution in London.

1957

An electron density map at 6 angstrom (0.6 nanometre) resolution was obtained by 1957, and by 1959 an atomic model could be built at 2 angstrom (0.2 nm) resolution.

1962

Kendrew shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Max Perutz, for their work at the Cavendish Laboratory to investigate the structure of haem-containing proteins.

Kendrew was born in Oxford, son of Wilfrid George Kendrew, reader in climatology in the University of Oxford, and Evelyn May Graham Sandburg, art historian.

Kendrew shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the first atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.

Their work was done at what is now the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.

Kendrew determined the structure of the protein myoglobin, which stores oxygen in muscle cells.

1963

In 1963, Kendrew became one of the founders of the European Molecular Biology Organization; as well, he founded and was for many years editor-in-chief of the Journal of Molecular Biology.

1967

He became Fellow of the American Society of Biological Chemists in 1967 and honorary member of the International Academy of Science, Munich.

1974

In 1974, he succeeded in persuading governments to establish the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg and became its first director.

He was knighted in 1974.

From 1974 to 1979, he was a Trustee of the British Museum, and from 1974 to 1988 he was successively Secretary General, Vice-President, and President of the International Council of Scientific Unions.

1981

After his retirement from EMBL, Kendrew became President of St John's College at the University of Oxford, a post he held from 1981 to 1987.

In his will, he designated his bequest to St John's College for studentships in science and in music, for students from developing countries.

2010

The Kendrew Quadrangle at St John's College in Oxford, officially opened on 16 October 2010, is named after him.

2020

A biography of John Kendrew, titled A Place in History: The Biography of John C. Kendrew, by Paul M. Wassarman was published by Oxford University Press in March 2020.