A series on the current work of Fellows of the Royal Society with Dr. M. F. Perutz, F.R.S. and Dr. J. C. Kendrew, F.R.S. with a filmed contribution by Professor J. D. Bernal F.R.S.
Proteins control the activity of every living cell. Knowing how they are made will help us to understand how they work. Now, after more than twenty years of intensive research, the structures of two proteins have been worked out for the very first time.
Outside Broadcast cameras visit the Medical Research Council Unit for Molecular Biology in the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, to meet the two scientists responsible for this, one of the greatest British scientific achievements of the century.