Max Perutz dancing with his wife Gisela at the 1962 Nobel ball Image credit: Wikipedia Not too many Fellows of the Royal Society or Nobel prizewinners have been drawn to Budleigh Salterton’s delights. So I was excited a few years ago to discover a genuine Budleigh scientist who’d remained faithful to the town of his birth and in 1862 settled here in retirement after an adventurous life on the other side of the world. Henry John Carter FRS was deservedly honoured with a rare blue plaque on the wall of his house off Fore Street Hill. Max Perutz was not a Budleigh resident. But he certainly helped to give the place distinction, and for that reason among many others I will be toasting his health on 19 May. It’s 100 years since his birth, recognised this year by Royal Mail which has honoured him with a stamp as part of the ‘Remarkable Lives’ series. Max Ferdinand Perutz, OM, CH, CBE, FRS, was an Austrian-born British ...
