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  • In a 1963 letter to Max Perutz, molecular biologist Sydney Brenner foreshadowed what would be molecular biology's next intellectual migration:

    Molecular Biology Darden, Lindley 2009

  • One was Max Perutz, a German refugee who had been researching hemoglobin at Cambridge.

    Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

  • “Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral-looking an object?” lamented the Nobel laureate biochemist Max Perutz when he first beheld the irregular, bowel-like structure of myoglobin.11 Yet, like the mechanical innards of a robot, myoglobin is built to do a job, not to look pretty.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • “Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral-looking an object?” lamented the Nobel laureate biochemist Max Perutz when he first beheld the irregular, bowel-like structure of myoglobin.11 Yet, like the mechanical innards of a robot, myoglobin is built to do a job, not to look pretty.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • “Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral-looking an object?” lamented the Nobel laureate biochemist Max Perutz when he first beheld the irregular, bowel-like structure of myoglobin.11 Yet, like the mechanical innards of a robot, myoglobin is built to do a job, not to look pretty.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • “Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral-looking an object?” lamented the Nobel laureate biochemist Max Perutz when he first beheld the irregular, bowel-like structure of myoglobin.11 Yet, like the mechanical innards of a robot, myoglobin is built to do a job, not to look pretty.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • This series of essays by Max Perutz, a Nobel prize winning x-ray crystallographer is wonderful to dip into.

    Book Meme (from Snail's Tales) Michelle 2005

  • This series of essays by Max Perutz, a Nobel prize winning x-ray crystallographer is wonderful to dip into.

    Archive 2005-06-01 Michelle 2005

  • Max Perutz is certainly right that third-world agricultures should not be deprived of the possible gains in productivity that might accrue from the use of recombinant DNA methods.

    'Genes in the Food': An Exchange Fuller, Colleen 2001

  • Nobel prize winners like Fred Sanger and Max Perutz, who are here with me today, thank you for all that you have done.

    CNN Transcript - Breaking News: President Clinton, British Prime Minister Tony Blair Deliver Remarks on Human Genome Milestone - June 26, 2000 2000

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