John Kendrew Net Worth

Sir John Cowdery Kendrew was an English biochemist and crystallographer who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his studies of the structure of globular proteins. Born in Oxford, he graduated in chemistry from Trinity College and served in the Royal Air Force during World War II. After the war, he joined the Cavendish Laboratory and worked on hemoglobin and myoglobin, eventually devising the structure of the latter. He was also an excellent administrator, helping to establish the Medical Research Council Unit at the Cavendish Laboratory, founding the European Molecular Biology Organization, and serving as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Molecular Biology. He was highly respected by the scientific community for his research and his gentlemanly demeanor.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Biochemist and Crystallographer
Birth Day March 24, 1917
Birth Place Oxford, United Kingdom, British
Age 103 YEARS OLD
Died On 23 August 1997(1997-08-23) (aged 80)\nCambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Birth Sign Aries
Education Clifton College
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Known for Heme-containing proteins
Awards Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1962) EMBO Member (1964) Royal Medal (1965)
Fields Crystallography
Institutions Peterhouse, Cambridge Royal Air Force
Thesis X-ray studies of certain crystalline proteins : the crystal structure of foetal and adult sheep haemoglobins and of horse myoglobin (1949)
Academic advisors Max Perutz
Doctoral students Hugh Huxley Lubert Stryer
Other notable students James D. Watson (postdoc)

💰 Net worth: $1.3 Million (2024)

John Kendrew, the renowned British biochemist and crystallographer, is estimated to have a net worth of $1.3 million by 2024. His expertise in the field of molecular biology and his groundbreaking work on protein structure have earned him wide recognition and numerous accolades. Kendrew's pioneering research, particularly his elucidation of the structure of myoglobin, has significantly contributed to our understanding of the intricate workings of biomolecules. As a leading scientist, his wealth can be seen as a testament to the value society places on groundbreaking scientific contributions.

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Biography/Timeline

1930

He was born in Oxford, son of Wilford George Kendrew, reader in climatology in the University of Oxford, and Evelyn May Graham Sandburg, art Historian. After prep school at the Dragon School in Oxford, he was educated at Clifton College in Bristol, 1930–1936. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge in 1936, as a Major Scholar, graduating in chemistry in 1939. He spent the early months of World War II doing research on reaction kinetics, and then became a member of the Air Ministry Research Establishment, working on radar. In 1940 he became engaged in operational research at the Royal Air Force headquarters, holding the honorary rank of Wing Commander R.A.F. He was awarded his PhD after the war in 1949.

1945

In 1945 he approached Max Perutz in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. Joseph Barcroft, a respiratory Physiologist, suggested he might make a comparative protein crystallographic study of adult and fetal sheep hemoglobin, and he started that work.

1947

In 1947 the MRC agreed to make a research unit for the Study of the Molecular Structure of Biological Systems. The original studies were on the structure of sheep hemoglobin, but when this work had progressed as far as was possible using the resources then available, Kendrew embarked on the study of myoglobin, a molecule only a quarter the size of the hemoglobin molecule. His initial source of raw material was horse heart, but the crystals thus obtained were too small for X-ray analysis. Kendrew realized that the oxygen-conserving tissue of diving mammals could offer a better prospect, and a chance encounter led to his acquiring a large chunk of whale meat from Peru. Whale myoglobin did give large crystals with clean X-ray diffraction patterns. However, the Problem still remained insurmountable, until in 1953 Max Perutz discovered that the phase Problem in analysis of the diffraction patterns could be solved by multiple isomorphous replacement — comparison of patterns from several crystals; one from the native protein, and others that had been soaked in solutions of heavy metals and had metal ions introduced in different well-defined positions. An electron density map at 6 angstrom (0.6 nanometre) resolution was obtained by 1957, and by 1959 an atomic model could be built at 2 angstrom (0.2 nm) resolution.

1962

Kendrew shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the first atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography. Their work was done at what is now the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. Kendrew determined the structure of the protein myoglobin, which stores oxygen in muscle cells. On Saturday 20 October 1962 the award of Nobel prizes to John Kendrew and Max Perutz, and to Crick, Watson, and Wilkins was satirised in a short Sketch in the BBC TV programme That Was The Week That Was with the Nobel Prizes being referred to as 'The Alfred Nobel Peace Pools'.

1963

In 1963 Kendrew became one of the founders of the European Molecular Biology Organization; as well, he founded and was for many years editor-in-chief of the Journal of Molecular Biology. He became Fellow of the American Society of Biological Chemists in 1967 and honorary member of the International Academy of Science. In 1974 he succeeded in persuading governments to establish the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg and became its first Director. From 1974 to 1979 he was a Trustee of the British Museum, and from 1974 to 1988 he was successively Secretary General, Vice-President, and President of the International Council of Scientific Unions.

1981

After his retirement from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Kendrew became President of St John's College at Oxford University, a post he held from 1981 to 1987. Kendrew's entry in Who's Who lists ten other important national and international committees on which he served as either member or chairman.

2010

The Kendrew Quadrangle at St John's College in Oxford, officially opened on 16 October 2010, is named after him.