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Whose research reports were used by Watson and Crick along with Wilkins' and Franklin's work for describing DNA?

  • Max Perutz

  • Albert Einstein

  • Gregor Mendel

  • Niels Bohr

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Max Perutz was an Austrian-British molecular biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1962. His research reports on the structure of hemoglobin were used by James Watson and Francis Crick along with Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin's work for describing the structure of DNA. Perutz's work helped to explain how hemoglobin binds oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood.
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