{"id":612,"date":"2011-02-27T11:06:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T11:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/?p=612"},"modified":"2011-02-27T11:14:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T11:14:10","slug":"the-perutz-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2011\/02\/27\/the-perutz-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perutz Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have Jim Franks of Newton TV<\/a> to thank for the opportunity to sit around a table with some of the current scientists at the world-famous MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology to talk about the legacy of its founder, Max Perutz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n

The discussion was part of a video<\/a> that you can see at The Guardian<\/em> web-site and is intercut with previously unseen interview footage of Pertuz himself looking back on his scientific life. I know I’m biased, but it’s a fascinating film.<\/p>\n

I hope you’ve heard of Perutz. He’s a scientific hero of mine \u2014 it was his patient, tenacious pursuit of the structure of the oxygen-carryng blood protein haemoglobin that inspired my own move<\/a> into structural biology.<\/p>\n

But he wasn’t just a great scientist; he was also a wonderful mentor and a canny science administrator. His legacy is very much alive, as I discovered in the course of a delightful conversation with present and former MRC-LMB directors Hugh Pelham and Richard Henderson, and other current members of staff \u2014 Kiyoshi Nagai, Lori Passmore and Andrew Carter. I think Max Perutz still has a lot to teach us about how to do science properly<\/em>.\u00a0I hope you’ll watch.<\/p>\n

\"NewtwonTV<\/a><\/p>\n

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