The LMB said on its website that Max Perutz died of cancer early on Wednesday, 6 February.

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He was a fine mathematician (there is a Perutz theorem in probability theory) and the plots of his Prague tales toy with chance and coincidence.

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Max Perutz, a biologist at the Medical Research Council's laboratory in Cambridge, England, has been trying to find out what it is in the environment that has changed.

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Professor Perutz undertook his work at the Cavendish Laboratories in Cambridge, UK, before moving to the newly set up Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), which he chaired until 1979.

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That something, according to Dr Perutz, was money.

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Leo Perutz (1884-1957) epitomised old Prague.

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