An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

PERUTZ, Max Ferdinand

4 entries
  • 14223

The structure of haemoglobin - IV. Sign determination by the isomorphous replacement method.

Proc. roy. Soc. Ser. A. Math. & Phys. Sci, 225, 287-307, 1954.

The first demonstration of isomorphous replacement in protein crystallography. This was a key step in determination of the structure of large biological molecules. Harittai, "On the origins of isomorphous replacement in protein crystallography," Structural Chemistry, 33, 2022, 635-639.

Digital facsimile from royalsocietypublishing.org at this link.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Protein Crystallization
  • 6913

Three-dimensional Fourier synthesis of horse oxyhaemoglobin at 2.8Å resolution: The atomic model.

Nature, 219, 131-39, 1968.

Thirty years after beginning his research on hemoglobin Perutz solved the Fourier synthesis of hemoglobin at 2.8Å (high resolution) and built an atomic model of the molecule. With Hilary Muirhead, J. M. Cox & L. C. G. Goaman.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Protein Structure
  • 6916

Molecular pathology of human haemoglobin.

Nature, 219, 902-09, 1968.

Perutz opened up "the field of 'molecular pathology,' relating a structural abnormality to a disease" (Aaron Klug, "Max Perutz 1914-2002," Science 295 ([2002] 2383). Specifically Perutz showed that hemoglobin molecules collapse into a sickle shape in the blood disorder sickle-cell anemia. 



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Protein Structure, GENETICS / HEREDITY › HEREDITARY / CONGENITAL DISEASES OR DISORDERS › Blood Disorders › Sickle-Cell Disease, HEMATOLOGY › Anemia & Chlorosis, PATHOLOGY
  • 11069

Science is not a quiet life: Unravelling the atomic mechanism of haemoglobin.

Singapore: World Publishing Company, 1997.

Reprints landmark papers with commentary by Perutz.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › History of Molecular Biology