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Born March 10, 1941 (age 84) • Norwalk • Connecticut
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2018)
Subjects Of Study Plasmodium falciparum • bacteria • bacteriophage • gene III • inflammatory bowel disease • peptide • protein • rheumatoid arthritis
Richard Henderson
British biologist
Gregory P. Winter
British biochemst
Robert J. Lefkowitz.
Robert J. Lefkowitz
American physician and biologist
Brian K. Kobilka, 2012.
Brian K. Kobilka
American physician and biologist
Thomas Robert Cech
American scientist
Joachim Frank
German-American biochemist
Thomas Steitz
American biophysicist and biochemist
Fenn, John B.
John B. Fenn
American scientist
William H. Stein
American biochemist
Anfinsen, Christian B.
Christian B. Anfinsen
American biochemist
Stanford Moore
American biochemist
Jacques Dubochet
Swiss biophysicist
Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath.
Ada Yonath
Israeli biochemist
Robert Huber
German biochemist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Sir John Cowdery Kendrew
British biochemist
Johann Deisenhofer
German American biochemist
Hartmut Michel
German biochemist
Tiselius, oil painting by William Fleetwood, 1965; in Gripsholm Castle, Mariefred, Swed.
Arne Tiselius
Swedish biochemist
Rothman, James E.
James E. Rothman
American biochemist and cell biologist
Schekman, Randy W.
Randy W. Schekman
American biochemist and cell biologist

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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