Forest of Rods model of myoglobin
- maker:
- Max Ferdinand Perutz and
- 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
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Model of myoglobin ("forest of rods") constructed in 1960 during work on the structure of the molecule to a resolution
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Model of myoglobin ("forest of rods") constructed in 1960 during work on the structure of the molecule to a resolution
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Model of myoglobin ("forest of rods") constructed in 1960 during work on the structure of the molecule to a resolution
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Model of myoglobin ("forest of rods") constructed in 1960 during work on the structure of the molecule to a resolution
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Model of myoglobin ("forest of rods") constructed in 1960 during work on the structure of the molecule to a resolution
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Model of myoglobin ("forest of rods") constructed in 1960 during work on the structure of the molecule to a resolution
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Model of myoglobin ("forest of rods") constructed in 1960 during work on the structure of the molecule to a resolution
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
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, steel (metal)
- Measurements:
-
crated: 470kg
- type:
- myoglobin models
- credit:
- Dr. M.F. Perutz.
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