John Kendrew (nonfiction)

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John Kendrew with model of myoglobin in progress.

Sir John Cowdery Kendrew, CBE, FRS (24 March 1917 – 23 August 1997) was an English biochemist and crystallographer who investigated the structure of heme-containing proteins.

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

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