Famous People with Name Kendrew

John Cowdery Kendrew            Origin/Culture/Country: British

John Cowdery Kendrew: English biochemist and crystallographer who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Max Perutz; their group in the Cavendish Laboratory investigated the structure of heme-containing proteins.

Sir John Cowdery Kendrew            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Sir John Cowdery Kendrew: was an English biochemist and crystallographer.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. He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, as well as 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.

Sir Douglas Anthony Kendrew            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Sir Douglas Anthony Kendrew: was a British rugby player and military officer, who became Governor of Western Australia 1963-1974. He became a Lieutenant with the Royal Leicestershire Regiment in 1931 and was promoted to major in 1941. During World War II he served in North Africa and