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Also Known As Emil Hermann Fischer
Born October 9, 1852 • Germany
Died July 15, 1919 (aged 66) • Berlin • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1902)
Subjects Of Study carbohydrate • enzyme • monosaccharide • protein • purine

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Richard Willstätter
German chemist
Eduard Buchner
German biochemist
Richard Henderson
British biologist
Warshel, Arieh
Arieh Warshel
American-Israeli chemist
Levitt, Michael
Michael Levitt
American-British-Israeli chemist
Martin Karplus
Martin Karplus
American-Austrian chemist
Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist
Baeyer, 1905
Adolf von Baeyer
German chemist
Adolf Windaus
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Euler-Chelpin
Hans von Euler-Chelpin
Swedish biochemist
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
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Sir Derek H.R. Barton.
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
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Fraser Stoddart
Fraser Stoddart
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Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath.
Ada Yonath
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Venki Ramakrishnan
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Thomas Steitz
American biophysicist and biochemist
Frances Arnold
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George P. Smith
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Fenn, John B.
John B. Fenn
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