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Born September 30, 1943 (age 81) • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1988)
Subjects Of Study X-ray diffraction • bacteria • photosynthesis • reaction centre
Robert Huber
German biochemist
Hartmut Michel
German biochemist
Calvin, Melvin
Melvin Calvin
American biochemist
George P. Smith
American biochemist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Max Ferdinand Perutz
British biochemist
Joachim Frank
German-American biochemist
Butenandt, Adolf
Adolf Butenandt
German biochemist
Hans Fischer
German biochemist
Richard Kuhn
German scientist
Euler-Chelpin
Hans von Euler-Chelpin
Swedish biochemist
Eduard Buchner
German biochemist
Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
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