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Theodor H.E. Svedberg
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Also Known As The Svedberg
Born August 30, 1884 • Sweden
Died February 25, 1971 (aged 86) • Örebro • Sweden
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
Subjects Of Study colloid • molecular weight • protein
Tiselius, oil painting by William Fleetwood, 1965; in Gripsholm Castle, Mariefred, Swed.
Arne Tiselius
Swedish biochemist
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
American chemist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
Emil Fischer.
Emil Fischer
German chemist
Richard Henderson
British biologist
Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath.
Ada Yonath
Israeli biochemist
Venki Ramakrishnan
Indian-born physicist and molecular biologist
Warshel, Arieh
Arieh Warshel
American-Israeli chemist
Thomas Steitz
American biophysicist and biochemist
George P. Smith
American biochemist
Francis William Aston.
Francis William Aston
British physicist and chemist
Fenn, John B.
John B. Fenn
American scientist
John B. Goodenough
American physicist
Levitt, Michael
Michael Levitt
American-British-Israeli chemist
Martin Karplus
Martin Karplus
American-Austrian chemist
Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist
Shimomura, Osamu
Osamu Shimomura
Japanese-born chemist

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