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Born July 27, 1881 • Höchst • Germany
Died March 31, 1945 (aged 63) • Munich • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1930)
Subjects Of Study chlorophyll • hemin
Joachim Frank
German-American biochemist
Butenandt, Adolf
Adolf Butenandt
German biochemist
Richard Willstätter
German chemist
Robert Huber
German biochemist
Johann Deisenhofer
German American biochemist
Richard Kuhn
German scientist
Hartmut Michel
German biochemist
Euler-Chelpin
Hans von Euler-Chelpin
Swedish biochemist
Eduard Buchner
German biochemist
Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Calvin, Melvin
Melvin Calvin
American biochemist
Kary B. Mullis
Kary Mullis
American chemist
David Baker
David Baker
American biochemist and computational biologist
Lindahl, Tomas
Tomas Lindahl
Swedish biochemist
Aziz Sancar
Aziz Sancar
Turkish-American biochemist
Gregory P. Winter
British biochemst
Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath.
Ada Yonath
Israeli biochemist
Thomas Robert Cech
American scientist
Modrich, Paul
Paul Modrich
American biochemist
Thomas Steitz
American biophysicist and biochemist