Sentences with phrase «cavendish laboratory the group»

At the Cavendish Laboratory the group that formed around Bernal, a man of wide public and scientific interests, included the Nobel Prize winners Max Perutz and John Kendrew, who in 1937 began to use X rays to analyze two proteins fundamental to life, myoglobin and hemoglobin, both of which function in the transport of gases in the blood.

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Watson met Crick at the Cavendish Laboratory (Cambridge University) in 1951, when he (Watson) came over from the U.S. on a fellowship to join a small group of researchers working on the structure of proteins.