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Forest of Rods model of myoglobin

Made:: 1960 in Cambridge

maker:: Max Ferdinand Perutz; John Cowdery Kendrew

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Model of myoglobin ("forest of rods") constructed in 1960 during work on the structure of the molecule to a resolution
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Model of myoglobin ("forest of rods") constructed in 1960 during work on the structure of the molecule to a resolution
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London.

Part of model of myoglobin ("forest of rods") constructed in 1960 during work on the structure of the molecule to a resolution of 2 Angstroms: it comprises steel rods with meccano clips in wooden base-boards with Kendrew-type skeletal models showing the peptide chain

The British crystallographer John Kendrew and the Austrian-British molecular biologist Max Perutz built this remarkable model to represent the molecular structure of myoglobin, a compound that stores oxygen in muscles. The two scientists won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work determining the structure of this and other globular proteins.

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Details

Category:: Biochemistry

Object Number:: 1977-219 Pt3

Materials:: aluminium (metal), plastic (unidentified), plywood and steel (metal)

Measurements:: crated: 470kg

type:: myoglobin models

credit:: Dr. M.F. Perutz.

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