Max Perutz And The Secret Of Life

Max Perutz, one of science's great ambassadors... has been given a meaty biography by former New Scientist writer Georgina Ferry

Jewish Quarterly

Ferry has captured her subject's genial, uncompetitive personality well

Brenda Maddox, Literary Review

Elegant, adroit biography...delightful

Observer

Georgina Ferry's biography captures not only the scientific advances made by Perutz but also his curious personal qualities

Economist

[A] marvellous biography of one of the least known of the twentieth century's great scientists...Ferry has mined gold into the lives of two of the founders of structural biology; I can't wait to see who she tackles next

Nature

I loved it. As a scientist, reading this well-written biography of a great researcher was a treat.... Max Perutz was a great man and a great researcher, and here he has received the biography he deserves

Sunday Telegraph

Georgina Ferry has produced a first rate account of his life... there is no difficult physics and the story will appeal to anyone who wants to know how science works and how exciting scientific research can be

Royal College of Pathologists magazine

The story of how he (Perutz) found it (the scientific enlightenment) is the substance of this engrossing biography by Georgina Ferry, who is rapidly turning into the most interesting science writer going... At a time when British citizenship is being debated, we would do well to remember the case of Max Perutz along with the many other immigrants who transfused the intellectual life-blood of this country in the postwar years

Giles Foden, Guardian