Max Perutz, 1914 - 2002
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The society mourns the death of one of its Patrons, the Nobel Laureate
Max Perutz. Professor Perutz had been affiliated with the society since
giving a CUSS talk on the life of Lise Meitner in 1997. He was a former
head of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge and was
awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962 for work on the structure of
haemoglobin. Please read this
page for a brief tribute to his life and work. |
Professor Sir Michael Atiyah OM FRS
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President of the Royal Society (1990-95). Master of Trinity College,
Cambridge (1990-1997). Director of the Isaac Newton Institute for
Mathematical Sciences. Awarded the Fields Medal at the International
Congress of Mathematicians, 1966. Appointed as Chancellor of the
University of Leicester beginning in July of 1996. |
Professor Antony Hewish FRS
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Emeritus Professor of Radio Astronomy, Cambridge University. Fellow of
Churchill College. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 for the
discovery of pulsars. |
Professor Sir Aaron Klug SCD (HON)LLD OM PRS
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President of the Royal Society. Formerly Director of the Medical Research
Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge. Fellow of Peterhouse.
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1982 for his development of
crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of
biologically important nuclei acid-protein complexes. |
Professor Salvador Moncada FRS
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The Cruciform Project (Strategic Medical Research). Responsible for
discovery that nitric oxide is an important vasodilator. |
Professor Heinz Wolff
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Director and founder of the Brunel Institute for Bioengineering. Host of
the BBC television program "The Great Egg Race" and many other
programmes. |
Professor Lord Robert Winston
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Lord Winston is best known as the presenter of the Human Body and Super Human television series, but he also heads up a world leading human fertility research team.
A major contributor to the development of gynaecological microsurgery in the 1970s, Lord Winston was a prime figure in the enormous progress in the fields of IVF and reproductive genetics. |
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