Max Ferdinand Perutz (1914 - 2002)

Biography

Max Perutz is Notable.

Max Ferdinand Perutz was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate in 1962.

Max was born in 1914 in Vienna, the son of Adele Goldschmidt and Hugo Perutz , a textile manufacturer.^[1] His parents were Jewish by ancestry, but had baptised Perutz in the Catholic religion.^[2]

In the 1939 register, Max (age 25), Scientify Research Worked Dept Of Physics Cans, was recorded at 15 Emmanuel Road, Cambridge, Cambridge M.B., Cambridgeshire, England.^[3]

In 1942, Perutz married Gisela Clara Mathilde Peiser (1915–2005), a medical photographer. They had two children, Vivien (b. 1944), an art historian; and Robin (b. 1949), a professor of Chemistry at the University of York. Gisela was a refugee from Germany (she was a Protestant whose own father had been born Jewish).

He died on 6 February 2002 in Cambridge^[1] and his ashes were interred with his parents in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge. His wife died on 17 December 2005 and her ashes were interred in the same grave

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1962/perutz/facts/
2. ↑ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2222719/
3. ↑ 1939 Register: "1939 Register"
   Reference: RG101/6306H/013/22; Piece number: 6306H; Schedule: 200
   FindMyPast Image - FindMyPast Transcription (accessed 28 August 2024)
   Max F Perutz (born 19 Mar 1914), married, Scientify Research Worked Dept Of Physics Cans, at 15 Emmanuel Road, Cambridge, Cambridge M.B., Cambridgeshire, England.

See also:

• Wikidata: Item Q78480, en:Wikipedia
• FamilySearch Person: G3L2-FDJ