M.F. Perutz

M. F. Perutz, former Chairman of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962. He is the author of Is Science Necessary?, Protein Structure, and, most recently, I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier. (November 2001)

From the Review

November 1, 2001: Growing Up Among the Elements

Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks

October 4, 2001: 'Genes in the Food': An Exchange

May 17, 2001: 'Biohazard' (letter)

March 8, 2001: What If?

Five Days in London, May 1940 by John Lukacs

November 30, 2000: Getting Better (letter)

April 13, 2000: The Threat of Biological Weapons

Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World—Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It by Ken Alibek, with Stephen Handelman

April 22, 1999: The Top Designer

Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People by Steven Vogel, illustrated by Kathryn K. Davis, by Steven Vogel

Of Flies, Mice, and Men by François Jacob, translated by Giselle Weiss

February 20, 1997: A Passion for Science

Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics by Ruth Lewin Sime

February 6, 1997: Pasteur's 'Private Science' (letter)

October 31, 1996: What Berthollet Wrote (letter)

June 20, 1996: The Cabinet of Dr. Haber

Fritz Haber, Chemiker, Nobelpreisträger, Deutscher, Jude: Eine Biografie by Dietrich Stoltzenberg

Der Fall Clara Immerwahr: Leben für eine humane Wissenschaft by Gerit von Leitner

April 4, 1996: Pasteur and the Culture Wars: An Exchange

February 1, 1996: Corrections (letter)

December 21, 1995: The Pioneer Defended

The Private Science of Louis Pasteur by Gerald L. Geison

August 11, 1994: Schubert's Death Wish (letter)

May 26, 1994: The White Plague

The Forgotten Plague: How the Battle Against Tuberculosis Was Won—and Lost by Frank Ryan

Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History by Sheila M. Rothman

Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the 'Immigrant Menace' by Alan M. Kraut

February 3, 1994: Lise Meitner's Genius (letter)

October 7, 1993: 'An Intellectual Bumblebee'

Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, The Man Behind the Bomb by William Lanouette, with Bela Silard, foreword by Jonas Salk

September 23, 1993: 'The Fifth Freedom': An Exchange

February 11, 1993: Sex and the Church (letter)

October 8, 1992: The Fifth Freedom

The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse: The Autobiography of Carl Djerassi by Carl Djerassi

The 'Abortion Pill' by Etienne-Emile Baulieu, with Mort Rosenblum

June 25, 1992: The Mystery of Malaria: An Exchange

January 16, 1992: A Mystery of the Tropics

The Malaria Capers: More Tales of Parasites and People, Research and Reality by Robert S. Desowitz

December 6, 1990: 'Darwin and Marx' (letter)

August 16, 1990: High on Science

A Very Decided Preference: Life with Peter Medawar by Jean Medawar

The Threat and the Glory: Reflections on Science and Scientists by P.B. Medawar, edited and introduced by David Pyke, foreword by Lewis Thomas

Peter Brian Medawar: 28 February 1915–2 October 1987 by N.A Mitchison F.R.S.

April 12, 1990: 'Mother Country': An Exchange

March 1, 1990: Discrepancy (letter)

January 18, 1990: Nuclear Pollution: An Exchange

November 23, 1989: Is Britain 'Befouled'?

Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution by Marilynne Robinson

May 18, 1989: Moscow & Harold Wilson (letter)

May 18, 1989: Should Genes Be Screened?

Proceed With Caution: Predicting Genetic Risks in the Recombinant DNA Era by Neil A. Holtzman

October 13, 1988: Two Roads to Stockholm

Free Radical: Albert Szent-Györgyi and the Battle over Vitamin C by Ralph W. Moss

In Praise of Imperfection: My Life and Work by Rita Levi-Montalcini, translated by Luigi Attardi

May 12, 1988: Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Man

The Statue Within: An Autobiography by François Jacob, translated by Franklin Philip

March 3, 1988: The Vaccine Business (letter)

October 8, 1987: Department of Defense

The Thorn in the Starfish: How the Human Immune System Works by Robert S. Desowitz

March 27, 1986: Lucky Alec

Alexander Fleming: The Man and the Myth by Gwyn Macfarlane

September 26, 1985: Brave New World

Solid Clues: Quantum Physics, Molecular Biology, and the Future of Science by Gerald Feinberg

Books by M.F. Perutz

I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier: Essays on Science, Scientists, and Humanity (1998)
Protein Structure: New Approaches to Disease and Therapy (1992)
Is Science Necessary?: Essays on Science and Scientists (1989)