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Structure of haemoglobin: A three-dimensional Fourier synthesis at 5.5-A. resolution, obtained by X-ray analysis.

Publication Details

Nature, 185, No. 4711, 416-422. 1960 CE.

Solution of the structure of hemoglobin, a protein with 10,000 atoms. This was the culmination of 30 years of research by Perutz.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Perutz, Rossmann, Culis, Muirhead, Will, North.

In 1962 Perutz shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his student John Cowdery Kendrew "for their studies of the structures of globular proteins."

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