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Max Perutz was born on May 19, 1914, in Vienna, Austria . He held citizenship in the United Kingdom , Austria , and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland . Perutz studied at the University of Vienna and later at the University of Cambridge, specifically Peterhouse, Cambridge . He was advised by John Desmond Bernal during his doctoral studies . His educational background contributed to his various occupations as a biologist , chemist , and biochemist .
Over the course of his career, Perutz advised doctoral students Francis Crick , John Kendrew , David Mervyn Blow , and John Keith Moffat . He had one child, Robin Perutz .
In 1962, Max Perutz received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry . He passed away on February 6, 2002, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire .
