JOHN KENDREW

(Sir John Cowdery Kendrew)


John Kendrew
John Kendrew
  • Born: March 24, 1917
  • Died: August 23, 1997
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Scientist

Sir John Cowdery Kendrew, CBE FRS was an English biochemist, crystallographer, and science administrator. Kendrew shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Max Perutz, for their work at the Cavendish Laboratory to investigate the structure of heme-containing proteins.